Word: demand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play us; and yet it does not seem to us that her propositions were as liberal as they might have been. We hope that upon more mature consideration, the spirit which has previously characterized Yale and won her the respect of all, will exert a stronger influence and eventually demand that the right be done. We believe that this is what will happen, and that the much vexed question will come to a satisfactory conclusion...
...policy of protection is sound in principle.-(a) It enables a country to fix the terms of exchange in foreign trade.-(1) Foreign demand for our commodities is necessarily great.-(2) Protection lessens our demand for foreign commodities: Bowen, Am. Pol. Economy, 480.-(b) Protection is the best means of increasing the "consumer's rent;" Marshall, Principles of Economics, 508; Patten's Economic Basis of Protection...
Youth today owes to society three distinct services. One is moral idealism. No youth of any worth looks forward to his future occupation simply on an economic basis. He looks beyond, and hopes to make his profession better. And society has a right to demand this view from every youth. Linked with this must be the most strenuous purpose. We are not born with purposes firm set, but have to work our way with the strongest efforts. For this effort youth is the only fit time. Finally, society has a right to demand of youth a firmness and thoroughness that...
...rule was conceived without any idea, either of forcing any member of the league to withdraw from, or of preventing any team from joining the association; its spirit is entirely impersonal and it has been decided on as the best, and in fact the only way to satisfy the demand for the 'purification of athletics.' which every institution in the athletic field has advocated, without however, considering any practical solution of the difficulty, until Yale and her advisers formulated the regulations which were so favorably regarded on Saturday. This change will deprive every team which it affects of several good...
Miss Wetzler played Weber's Concert stuck in F minor with accuracy and precision. The work makes more demand on ability to play accurately than on an artistic sense, and consequently gives the soloist a chance to show excellence of only one sort...