Word: demand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...holiday numbers of Harper's and Scribner's Magazines have appeared and except that they have increased in thickness by half an inch or more and bear decorated covers there is very little to distinguish them from ordinary issues. It is to be admitted, however. that one can hardly demand more than one gets in the regular numbers, such is the excellence of the contents both literary and artistic...
...well to state that the club was organized at first chiefly for the benefit of students rooming outside of Cambridge, who wished some inexpensive place to go for luncheon. It has grown however to something very much broader, till now it seems to some degree to answer the demand of those who either cannot get into Memorial Hall or who wish more economical living...
...system proposed would tend to prevent the extension of civil service reform. - (a) By appeasing those who demand reform, without really giving reform. - (b) By obscuring the real evil in our politics, viz. the spoils system, and hence delaying its eradiction...
There has been a constant call for scholarships from students who well merit them, but the Society is unfortunately unable to meet this demand. Annual scholarships have been given at times by friends for certain students, but there is only one regular scholarship. With the care that is made for this aid there is an excellent chance here for some benefactor to render good service by establishing more scholarships...
There never was a labor question till popular education began and there is today no labor question where there is no popular education. Through education, the people have come to recognize their situation; now they demand a proportionate share in the profits of industry...