Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trial of candidates in the fall. There are numbers of men in college who have good voices, but who have never had their interest aroused so far as to seek membership in the Glee Club, or who have been diffident about presenting themselves. The club does not demand men with exceptional voices, but rather those who sing with attention to the requirements of the music and with care in regard to the pitch; men who are willing to work and to submit to the necessary discipline. Besides the large number of tenors and bases, the club will need a yodler...
...detected, they can go scott free by paying a sumequal to not one quarter of what they stole, it is not likely that the evil will be abolished very soon, Such outrageous, make-believe justice, will encourage thieving far more than it will discourage it. The security of property demands that men who steal shall be punished as criminals, and it is a demand that must be respected. The Cambridge police and justices have always shown a remarkable degree of zeal in punishing with severity small offences. Now when men who have committed actual crime are brought for trial, they...
...Both the existence of the rail-roads and the general good of the public demand that local traffic should pay higher rates, both proportionally and in the aggregate than the through traffic, because-(a) a large through traffic which can only be obtained by low rates is necessary to railroads and public alike; (b) local traffic, which is generally small, must be charged more to be profitable to the railroads; (c) for the public the alternative is either a local traffic at reasonable though higher rates or no traffic at all. In short, local discriminations are a necessary evil.- Testimony...
...students are prevented from indulging in this irreproachable form of exercise. The treasury which can open its vaults for a trainer and a running track and can pay for "the preparation of a large arege area of land for use as a college playground" cannot plead poverty to the demand for free tennis...
...with not four or five men exercising beside the University crew. There were less than 80 lockers, and they were not always used. In 1880 there were 474 lockers in the new gymnasium, and now there are 1049 all in use, with a demand for at least 50 more. Dr. Sargent tells me that there are 400 students actually in training, more or less, for various athletic teams, and, perhaps, nothing shows the general average improvement more than the fact that last year there were 250 men stronger than the strongest man in 1880. It is safe to say that...