Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slowly but surely assuming the character of professionalism-have, in other words, been gradually assuming a position which they have no right to occupy. It certainly would be far better that they should be abolished than that they should ever reach this stage. Just as soon as college games demand the active participation of graduates, just as soon, that is, as graduates return to college solely for athletics, just so soon intercollegiate contests have ceased to have a purpose. It is to preclude the possibility of this danger that the present action has been taken; and to it we must...
...reserve seat tickets for the Yale game will be on sale at Leavitt and Pierce's, Tuesday, November 5, at 7.30 a. m. As there is a great demand for these tickets, only ten tickets will be sold to each purchaser...
...policy of his subordinates, for which he is responsible, is at varance with his pledges-Civil Servics Record, May 1889; Public Opnion, March 30, August 13, June 22, 1889. (a) unprecedented demand for office-I'ublic Opinion, May 18, 25, July 20; New York Post, June 25; Nation, April 25, May 2, 9, 16, June 20, July 11, September 19, 26. (b) Nepotism-Epoch, August 2; Nation, May 1, July 4. (c) there have been gross abuses in the pension department-Public Opinion, May 18, July 6, September 7, 21; Nation...
...sport, to give the participants the best of athletic training, and to develope material for the Mott Haven team. During the last few days we have heard many express a wish for the revival of the sport. and signify their desire to participate in cross country runs. Indeed, the demand has been so general that it seems incumbent upon the H. A. A. to take action in the matter. Surely a sport so healthful and so pleasant should not be abandoned because of the enthusiasm in other lines of athletics. We hope, therefore that the mere expression of a general...
...atterly condemned; if, after that trial, it proves inefficient, there will be time enough then to decry it. Young men are far too apt to find fault on the spur of the moment where no material fault lies; and college men most of all, perhaps, are prone to demand more than is their due. It certainly will not be amiss if the present system be allowed a little more time in which to show its good points as well as its bad ones...