Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classmates. The classics are frequently worked up by groups of men in the same class. Sometimes a "pony boy" is hired, who, with his translation in hand, drones out his task, while his hearers, with eyes glued upon their text-books, follow him line for line, interrupting occasionally to demand a repetition of some difficult passage...
Accustomed as we have grown by sad experience to the utter disregard of fair dealing usually shown by Yale freshman nines, we must confess that the assurance of the present demand is little less than appalling. In reply to the claim filed by the enterprising manager of the New Haven freshmen, we will simply quote the Boston Herald, which expresses our sentiments exactly. From its base-ball columns we clip the following...
There is a demand on the part of many students, who intend to make journalism a profession, for some kind an elective which will in a measure prepare them for their future life work. Already many other colleges, among them Cornell and Columbia, have securred the services of able journalists to deliver to the students, courses of lectures during the coming year. Let us hope that Harvard will not be behind her sisters in this respect, and that in our next elective pamphlet, we shall see the announcement that arrangements have been made either for a systematic course of study...
...must always be remembered that the reports of the custom-houses represent merely the purchase of individuals. If exports are exceeded by imports, the blame is often laid on the government, but in truth this excess is due merely to the effectual demand of individuals. It is not a matter of government. Therefore, for government to meddle herein is a very delicate proceeding, for it is in practice an interference of government with purely private affairs. Legislators are poor enough managers of their own affairs, and much poorer of the affairs of others. It must next be remembered that...
...spoken for, and many applications remained unfilled. Now comes a fresh cry for tickets from those who did not know when and where the sale was to take place, and also from those who applied too late to have their orders filled on Saturday. To meet this new demand the club has consented to give an extra performance in Boston on Monday next. There can be but little question of its success. Eighty-four gave a third representation of their play, "Hernani," which was in every way successful; and judging from the way in which "Joan of Arc" was received...