Word: cater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sentiment may attribute the passing of Memorial Hall to the decadence of the present generation of college students. Such sentiment fails to consider that institutions must cater to the student if he is to approve them. Unless they do, students, who are always realists living in the present, will build new institutions of their own and leave the old in picturesque decay. The closing of Memoria Hall is a natural sequence of the failure to meet the demands of adaptation. University life few away and left Memorial Hall isolated, not because Harvard ceased to need it, but because Memorial Hall...
Politicians Need Not Cater to Voters...
...Polk was asked whether it was possible for a man to engage in politics now without being forced to cater to the wishes of his constituents in order to retain his office. "It certainly is," he replied. "I can name several prominent instances where a man, either Senator or Congressman, has disagreed with the electors of his state or district on many issues, and voted the way he thought best and despite his refusal, to follow the orders of his constituents has been returned to office again and again. People will uphold an upright man, and admire him, whether they...
Said Hygeia: "Modern quackery as an industry has grown to the point where it is able to support numerous subsidiary businesses that cater to its needs. Especially is this true in that particular field of quackery commonly designated as drugless...
...simple story was that Mr. Luce desired the floor space for a new restaurant which is to cater to Chicago's fastidious few. The Tribune must have more "kick," so it vapored about "a few daring New Yorkers" venturing into the "far West," discovering Chicago and telling their friends about it. Mr. Luce had been told by "some such explorer" that Chicago existed, but he had been cold to his informer; for he remembered that "a fourth cousin of his on a western hunting trip" had sent him a postcard of the place...