Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Union Athletic grounds are in demand for school and college foot ball games, and athletic meetings this fall...
...students was a matter of much less concern than at present. Since that day the attention paid to general athletics has grown to proportions which would astonish a student of that time. The provisions made for furnishing lockers to the students were found to be inadequate to the demand as early as last year, and now the increased supply is not only entirely taken up, but applications are constantly being received which the management of the gymnasium finds itself unable to meet...
...number of entries will be obtained. We would urge upon the members of the college who desire a sport for amusement, as well as for the display of athletic prowess, the advantages of canoeing. There are few more exciting amusements than sailing a canoe. nor are there many which demand more skill, The skill displayed by the more experienced canoe sailors is, to say the least, remarkable, and the feats that can be performed in a canoe are such as are not dreamed of by the beginner. Paddling a canoe is one of the best general exercises, and there...
...that will admit into our colleges and schools the proper curriculum for inculcating a liberal education is the sole purpose of the present lengthened discussion. Every advance in science and philology, every newly arising social or political requirement, every increase in commercial and industrial extension, in short, every new demand upon the energy and thought of educated men will only increase and broaden this idea of education. It is compulsory on us, the educated men of the succeeding generation, to prepare ourselves for life not by a training course of study invented to meet the requirements of the eleventh...
...proper business of universities to force subjects of study, or particular kinds of mental discipline upon unwilling generations." "Finally, the enlargement of the circle of liberal arts may be justly urged on the ground that the interests of the higher education and of the institutions which supply that education demand it. When institutions of learning cut themselves off from the sympathy and support of large numbers of men whose lives are intellectual, by refusing to recognize as liberal arts and disciplinary studies languages, literatures and sciences, which seem to these men as important as any which the institutions cultivate, they...