Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that district. The name "University" is made to appear to be grossly misapplied, and this misapplication to be due to the utter lack of any dormitory life. Surely no stronger argument can be advanced for the adoption of the dormitory system, and its extension to whatever limits circumstances and demand justify. The aim of the trustees of the University is said to be "to train boys up in the way the should go," and by that we suppose is meant to give them as much home life as possible, as little college life as possible. This interpretation of their...
...this department would entitle it to national honor, while its actual achievements are only a foretaste of future possibilities. The men who are most competent to investigate our political history are not always willing or able to incur the cost of publications for which there is but a limited demand...
...colleges in the South and West concerning the low standing of the preparatory schools to which they are compelled to look for students. The low standard of scholarship which is maintained in many of the preparatory schools in the Southwest prevents the colleges which receive their pupils from demanding as a requisite for admission any very advanced course of study. And yet the true cause of the inability of Western colleges to compete in scholarship with the colleges of the East, cannot fairly be ascribed to the low standard of scholarship in the preparatory schools. If Western colleges could...
With the growth of specialism, the department of History at Harvard has increased in proportions and importance until at present twenty courses are barely adequate to the demand. There is still, however, room for advance in the study of the original resources. Work of this character engages much attention at Johns Hopkins. Valuable contributions are made to the published works of history, and a taste for accuracy and perseverance is developed that leads many to devote themselves especially to later historical study...
...imagination. And too it imparts genealogical information. We learn with interest that a branch of the Smith family has been bold enough to go west and inflict its bane on western printers of college catalogues, who find the capital s's in their fonts far below the demand. "Arnold's father spent Sunday with him." Our sympathy for Arnold has no bounds. "Miss Daisy Lovejoy climbed the hill Saturday." A daisy on a hill-side is a picture that appeals to our most poetic natures. This item for a time completely absorbs our thoughts, until of a sudden we read...