Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the comments in that item are irrelevant; I might even put a harsher word and call them flippant. While suggesting that upperclassmen invite freshmen to their rooms, I made no mention of lunch or any other kind of entertainment, as I know well that most of us demand no more than that we should be allowed to mingle on terms of equality with the older fellows. I am sure that we freshmen are always glad to have any junior or senior (except subscription fiends, drop in on us, and if we have any good things we are willing...
...statement of the increase in the demand for gymnasium lockers which we publish in another column is one of the most pleasing bits of Harvard statistics which we have been able to present to our readers for some time. It is too apt to be the case that as a university grows in numbers and therefore in social facilities, the athletic opportunities of collegiate life fall into disrepute. This has been an occasional reason offered to account for an occasional athletic defeat. The steady increase in the number of lockers in use, until now it has reached a requirement...
DEAR EDITORS CRIMSON. - As the demand for lockers in the gymnasium is so great, why do not the directors make some rule about using the lockers, or at any rate about taking possession of them. Nearly three weeks have now passed and still there are many of the upstair lockers which are empty and open, just as they were left after the summer cleaning...
...members of the university are entitled to register as borrowers on the presentation of the Bursar's certificate. Three volumes can be taken at a time, and may be kept one month, and renewed, if not in demand. Any person keeping books beyond the prescribed time is subject to a fine of ten cents a day for each volume. Books reserved by officers of instruction, and unbound periodicals, are in open alcoves in the reading-room, and can be taken out at the close of Library hours, when properly charged at the delivery desk and must be returned the next...
...subject of the Union debate last night was, Resolved, That the best interests of the Commonwealth demand the election of John F. Andrew as governor. The debate for the affirmative was opened by W. L. Currier, '87; for the negative by C. L. Griffin, '88. T. W. Thayer, '89, followed for the affirmative, and F. McAfee, Sp., for the negative...