Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Monday's Princetonian contains a long and interesting sketch of the history of its ten years' existence. The paper was started in 1876 as a bi-weekly; the '84 board changed it into a weekly, and as the demand for college news grew greater, it was changed into a "bi-daily." The names of all the successive boards are printed in full...
...wretched notes that are now being sold around college, demand more than the passing imprecations of those who buy and have to read them. Their worthlessness should be made a matter of public notice. In what this consists, is clear to all who have had any experience with them, i. e. bad spelling, lack of coherence, and indistinct type so that parts are with difficulty legible. But this subject immediately leads us to a more serious matter, the whole system of buying and selling notes. Few stop to think what an evil this is or to what it might lead...
...annoyance, time also has added fuel to our wrath. The dulcet strains of the oboe and the nerveless screech of the violin have become simply maddening when they interrupt the culminating work of the year. The walls seem only to increase and re-echo the noise. We absolutely demand in behalf of suffering humanity, that the abuse be stopped...
...demand for the last report of President Eliot has nearly exhausted two editions. This shows what great interest is taken in Harvard's elective system by the outside world...
...purpose. That the bath will be erected, now seems a certainty; but it can hardly be completed before the end of two years. When it is built, all the baths now in the gymnasium will probably be removed, and their place used for more apparatus and lockers, as the demand for the latter becomes daily more urgent...