Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...heard before, and has to be heard from the lips of a genuine up-country Yankee to be understood. Duty, tune, lucid, blue, etc., become dooty, toon, bloo, etc. Past, fast, last, etc., invariably parst, farst, larst, only the r is not distinct. Whether he is right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest way to shun the extremities represented by the Western haff and laff and the Yankee's parst and larst is to follow the medio tutissimus ibis rule of Ovid...
...last the prospect of a spring vacation is good. The members of the Faculty have signed a document setting forth in appropriate terms their solemn belief that the best interests of the students in this institution of learning demand that they should have a week of rest somewhere between the first of January and the first of July. This belief is no hasty judgment. It is founded on the observations of several years; and the Faculty have the satisfaction of knowing that others, whose opportunities for forming an opinion have been equal, at least, to their own, came...
...from a graduate upon the subject of our rowing interests. This letter is, in a measure, a supplement to the one we published in our last number. The position of the writers of these letters, the strong ground they take, and the interest they show in our boating welfare demand, we think, some public recognition from those who are to select and train our crew, and who will shape our boating policy for the next summer. The captain of the crew does not, we believe, agree with the views expressed by our two correspondents. If this is the case...
...proclamation was ever more urgently needed than that which shall release the countless slaves of public opinion, and put a stop to such theatrical performances as that of Mr. Blaine in offering his pulse to be felt, that the country might know he was not nervous! In college the demand is equally imperative. Men's manners here are an imitation; given any unusual set of circumstances, not covered by conventional rules, and dozens of men who call themselves polite behave like barbarians. Their religious belief is a mere acceptance of family traditions; why they hold it is as mysterious...
...College buildings that their rooms must be vacated at the end of the present term. This action is caused principally, we believe, by a desire to increase the number of rooms which can be let to students by the College. There can be no doubt that the demand for rooms in the buildings far exceeds the supply, but the plan for satisfying this demand seems to us as poor a one as could well be devised. It is neither just toward the societies nor likely to prove beneficial to the University. Upon the Hasty Pudding Club the decree...