Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...latest venture in the field of college literature was made only last year, when the demand for a magazine that would preserve the more serious literary work done in the college led to the foundation of "The Harvard Monthly." "The Monthly" has started well and is doing excellent work and it is to be hoped that its existence will be a long and prosperous...
...senior on this, perhaps the most trying day of his life. But now certain men refuse to follow this custom, simply because they wish selfishly to have the use of their own rooms on that day, when nearly every senior is a host and hundreds of their guests demand accommodation. Such action is intensely mean and thoroughly detestable. We trust that it is simply thoughtlessness that has caused these under-class men to refuse. With the case thus put before them they should not hesitate a moment to offer their rooms to those who so sadly need them on class...
...scheme I venture to propose, is one worthy of mention. I refer to the base-ball cage in the gymnasium. As matters now stand, the men training for the batteries cannot practice while the candidates for the other positions are working. Thus as the cage is now in great demand by the 'Varsity and Freshman teams, the hours of the fielders must be shortened, in order that the others may exercise. Now it seems to me that this (and all) inconvenience could be easily done away with and our facilities greatly increased, were we to add to the cage that...
...said that no two books that have appeared this year are in as much demand at present as James's Russell Lowell's "Democracy and Other Essays," and Mr. Brooks Adams' "Puritans...
...other point the writer advances is equally trival. He seems to forget that reference books are always in great demand; if a man who takes out a reserved book is too much absorbed in self to think for a moment of the rights of his fellow-student, a privation for a time, of the use of the reserved books may help to make him a little more considerate of others...