Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students who are selected to take part in college athletics are men of fine physique, who, in order to keep themselves in excellent condition, do not need the amount of training which they get. Time is often of great importance to them; but their physical powers are in demand, and this double draft upon their energies sometimes costs them their degrees. Men have been induced to enter the professional schools after graduation, that they might help retain the championship for certain sports. The evil of such a course is two-fold. It tends to raise the standard of the sport...
...committee appointed at the annual meeting of the Trinity College Alumni Association last June to solicit from the alumni and friends of the college such aid in the way of money as the instant needs of the college demand, have sent out a circular. This circular states that the total income of the college last year was $31,500 and the expenditures $31,325. These expenditures fall short of those estimated for this year by $5000. The circular states that the sum of $50,000 is required for special purposes, such as $17,000 for a becoming home...
Notice is given that there will be no hot or cold water at the gymnasium on Friday and Saturday of this week. An attempt will be made to increase the heating capacity of the boiler so as to render it capable of heating water quickly enough to meet the demand made upon it between five and six o'clock in the afternoon. To effect this it will be necessary to turn off the water for the time stated above...
...little book, which has probably been read by all Harvard men, of late years, has met with remarkable success, due no doubt very much to the illustrations by Mr. Atwood as well as to the "trilogy" itself. Almost nine thousand copies of the book have been sold and the demand still continues. It is a strange fact that the book met its largest sale in New York city, probably because it is a hit at the rival city of Boston...
...Most men do not get so heated by brain work that they need an atmosphere well down towards zero in which to be comfortable. And yet this seems to be the theory on which Massachusetts is heated-or rather left unheated. It does not seem to be an extravagant demand to ask that this hall be kept warmed hereafter whenever men are compelled to take a three hours examination in it. On the contrary it seems a reasonably wish to be comfortable under such circumstances...