Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opportunity that it will open for them. For the next twenty years, the preparatory schools will show a growth on the side of science teaching, the like of which has not been seen in this country, and really good teachers of chemistry and physics will be in increasing demand. It will be a fortunate university that shall supply the most of these teachers...
...make little progress in the dead languages do fairly well with the living. The mind of one learner may be most effectively trained by means of one science, that of another, by another. And it is not asking our college authorities to do an unreasonable thing when we demand that they shall indicate as nearly as may be the sources of the training received by the graduates they send forth. It is the common error of new converts to claim more for their system than its merits justify...
...response to a very general request on the part of the students in Chemistry, the large laboratory is kept open until one o'clock on Saturday, instead of closing at eleven. It was no more than rational that so reasonable a demand on the part of the students should by speedily granted. This opportunity to do additional laboratory work will be gladly embraced by a large number of men who found the previous time too short...
...hoped that some new lockers will be put in the gymnasium next year, as the demand for them now is far in excess of the supply...
...there is any college that can afford to reject a challenge without loss of dignity, that college is our own; by refusing Yale's demand, we show that we have no apprehension of its being said that "Harvard accepted Yale's challenge because she was afraid of being called a coward if she refused...