Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last few years, that the old provisions of the library are no longer adequate to give all the members of those courses a chance to get at the reference books. One of the history courses has recognized the insufficiency of the present arrangements to meet the demand for reference books, by its purpose of issuing a pamphlet with condensed notes of the important facts to be learned. This is a makeshift that deprives the student of the very great beneficiary which is to be derived from individual research...
...Cornell the demand for more lockers in the gymnasium is as urgent as it has been here sometimes...
...away at each other year by year from Putney to Mortlake. The county elevens who compete for the challenge cup of the Football Association are chosen with almost as much care as for cricket ; nay, it is whispered that professional players for the former are almost as much in demand as for the latter game, and get pretty nearly as well paid-which rumour, we may observe, if it be true, is a direct infraction of that rule of the association which enacts that "Any member of a Club receiving remuneration or consideration of any sort, above his actual expenses...
...ENGLAND COLLEGES.- The annual convention of delegates from the college faculties of Southern New England met recently at Amherst. The subject discussed was the selection of physics and chemistry to the college curriculum: It was generally agreed that to demand any preparation in the preparatory schools in these branches inadvisable, at least for the present. Professors Trowbridge and Cook represented Harvard in the convention...
...recognize fully the difficult situation of the present committee, for, do what it will, it cannot please everyone. And yet we have spoken thus frankly because the situation seems to demand it, for the only actions taken by the Committee last year. were unfortunate in every way. If the present Committee, with its popularity among the students, and its personal interest in the welfare of the college cannot solve this problem, we confess that we are in despair of any further faculty regulation...