Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Lit, an excellent paper in its way, and one that we believe is well supported, as it deserves to be. But the distinctive American college journal is of an entirely different character. In this country we generally go to the general magazines for such literature, while we demand a peculiarly college tone from our college journals. Of college dailies it is unnecessary to speak. Their endeavor is to occupy a place in the college world very similar to that occupied by the general newspaper in the outside world. The best example of the college journal of the class...
...opens brightly for the Harvard student. With a record of victories, brilliant and complete, made by its crews, with the record made in the past year in general athletics, in tennis and in lacrosse, the college can reasonably afford to be well satisfied. The successes of the past will demand new successes in the future. A healthy feeling of confidence and hope must succeed the feeling of despondency that has often prevailed in the college. Thus with classes larger than ever before and with the cheerful spirit inspired by success, all those interests which occupy the leisure and constitute...
...should like to propose is, why should it not revert to its old uses as a dormitory? The upper stories could readily be fitted up again into rooms that would certainly be on a par with the rooms in Hollis and Stoughton, that are now in such active demand. A number of good cheap rooms could thus be added to the capacities of the college, to the great appreciation of large numbers of students who are now shut out of college buildings and thrown upon the tender mercies of Cambridge lodging-house keepers. There is a great need...
...would notify the book-sellers and the Co-operative Society to have them on hand, the difficulty would thus easily be done away with, and the courses could proceed without any such annoying interruption. Although so obvious, judging by the past, it is a matter which really seems to demand some attention now, for with very little trouble to those who ought to look after it, it can be remedied hereafter...
...success of such buildings as Little's Block, Hilton and Beck shows that dormitories are in demand. The writer then goes on to compare the rents of rooms at Harvard with that at English universities. "The rent of rooms in the college dormitories ranges from $300 downward. At Oxford, the most expensive university in Europe, room rent is not nearly so high; the highest priced rooms in Christ Church College, the costliest of all, being but pound18 18s., about $95; at Balliol the total average cost of furnished rooms is about pound20-$100; at Magdalene the highest priced rooms...