Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the university are entitled to register as borrowers on 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 morning...
...think it fit that the authorities make some official statement of the case to the students. A few words addressed to them by President Eliot would surely meet this demand most readily. Everybody is anxious to know about this change, and it is no more than fair that Harvard's great reforms be at least understood and appreciated by those who are most directly concerned...
...expressly for the observation trains, in which so many people see the races. The trains are made up of simple platform cars, upon which are built tiers of raised seats. These cars are never used at the races with Columbia, but when Harvard rows Yale they are in great demand, as by them one certainly can obtain the best possible view of a race. This year, however, it is very probable that they will be in use during the freshman race, as the interest in this contest is very great. Yale especially, it is said, is wild to get this...
...athletic organizations, a room for boxing, and the room of the medical attendant. Here also is where the majority of the lockers will be placed, space for about fourteen hundred being provided. Of course, at first all these will not be constructed, but as the wants of the students demand them, they will be put up. On this floor there are also the two vestibules and entrance halls, one on Elm street and one on High...
...will probably cut it up into building lots. The park comprises fifty-one acres, and for the past twenty years has served the college as a general athletic field. Several years ago efforts were made to buy it for the college, but the owners were foolish enough to demand an unreasonably large price, which, of course, the college was unwilling to pay, although it would have made a far more desirable athletic field than the one we now have. - Yale News...