Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regulation that the library shall be closed half an hour before sunset, all students who have recitations at three o'clock will be deprived of the privilege of taking out reserved books for the next two months. This is just the time of year when there is the greatest demand for these books, and the regulation causes much inconvenience and annoyance. A petition is at Bartlett's requesting that the time for taking out reserved books be extended to quarter past four. Every student ought to sign this, and without delay. The authorities can hardly refuse to grant us this...
...seen the beautiful and expensive experiments in freshman chemistry, the thought would seem absurd that the authorities could possibly fail to vote sufficient appropriations for the scientific departments of the university. Yet the appropriation for carrying on work in the physical laboratory is unreasonably inadequate to the demand made on it. Although we possess one of the finest physical laboratories in the world, the appropriation this year for carrying on the work was only a few hundred dollars. In the study of physics delicate and accurate instruments are absolutely necessary. Many instruments in the laboratory are in so wretched...
There is a demand for more tennis courts, or at least for a re-marking...
...there is one deficiency which ought to be supplied at once. N. H. 5 has been declared open to only a majority of those who wish to take it, for the simple reason that there is not a sufficient number of microscopes to supply the demand. It is a great disappointment, to all of the unsuccessful applicants, and it would appear that they are suffering under unavoidable injustice. If our treasury were receiving anything beside unpaid bills, we might feel like donating a few hundred dollars to the college for use in purchasing microscopes, but under the present conditions...
...Yale boat Halcyon, in 1852, up to our defeat by Yale at New London last spring. The development of the rowing interest in American colleges is traced, and the present methods of training and racing are fully described. There can be but little doubt that Outing will be in demand this month at Harvard...