Word: demand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: Resolved, That the interests of the country demand the election of a Republican president...
...teams without reason, simply because they are freshmen; and Ninety-four, therefore, may feel well assured that the college is showing entire justice when it condemns the nine for the unsteadiness which they have been showing. Yesterday they played a very fair game. The college has a right to demand that they shall keep this game up and improve it. Only a week and a half remain before the first game with Yale '94. It is a short time, but long enough for the nine to brace itself up at its weak points. What these weaknesses and needs...
...debate was continued for the negative, in the absence of F. B. Williams by J. F. Morton '92. He said that injustice, in connection with this question, is not a personal matter; but "justified" means "that which is right" in the abstract sense. The people of the United States demand that the officers of the government should be appointed not for partisan reasons, but only for reasons of merit...
...changed. Professor Macvane contributes the leading article to the March Monthly and in it makes an able stand against the arguments of Professor James and others who advocate the three years' course. The various arguments offered by the friends of the three years' course,-such as a popular demand for such a change, the supposed analogies of foreign educational systems, the relations of our colleges to our professional schools, the failure of the attendance at colleges to keep pace with the growth of population, the increasing efficiency of our secondary schools, etc.,- are met and answered. Professor Macvane's arguments...
...reference books in the college Libraryhas been inadequate for the History courses. As these courses were growing larger every year, it became imperative that there should be some working library, open evenings as well as day times, and with enough of the really indispensable books to satisfy the demand. Professors Channing and Macvane recognized the necessity of such a place, and began early last fall to collect money for it. Thus far they have raised about $2,000. The college gave them the use of the room now known as Harvard 2, originally the old Physical Laboratory and later...