Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doing this the unfair play which has been so manifest this year will disappear. We believe that this change, accompanied of course with other miner changes, will renovate the game of foot ball. What we ask is to be allowed to go into the foot ball convention, there demand that these radical changes be made, and then if defeated we will give up the game...
...other in a loose flannel shirt. The balance of the men were of medium build, gradually dwindling down to the small but active full-back of the blues, gay in sky-blue campaign blouse and skull cap. There was an apparent lack of canvas jackets, but the increasing demand for those articles on account of the late order of the committee on athletics had depleted the home market, and the players had to content themselves with flannel shirts of various hues, to say nothing of old coats...
...once desired. If the position taken were only foolish, we should not mind so much, -we are used to it; -but when there is a contradiction between theory and practice from every point of view, then objection mist be raised. Of all things, we have a right to demand that, if the motto of the college, Christo et Ecclesiae, mean anything, it should not come to be the common scoff and fun if has been made. It can be only a mockery when it looks down from the stained-glass windows of the chapel, on men who have been forced...
This letter gives no reasons for the statements made and makes no objection to any other date. But for Harvard, the Athletic regulations were the only trouble which prevented them from complying with Yale's demand. Rule 5 says that no game shall be played out of Cambridge except on Saturday; and as the committee on athletics have already broken it once this fall in favor of the freshmen, they refused to do so again on that very account. This state of affairs was quickly made known to the Yale manager, who wrote that the class had voted...
...meet increasing demand more books should be furnished, or more time given the student to use the books now in the library. During the winter months the library will close as early as half-past four, being open in all seven and a half hours. If it were kept open till eight or nine in the evening, there would be from three and a half to four and half hours added. This would increase the time, during which books would be accessible, by one-half. The additional hours also would come when many men do their hardest work, and when...