Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Bell, the electrician, is reported as saying in a recent conversation that there are more than 500,000 telephones in use in the United States, and the manufacturers are unable to supply the demand so as to keep abreast of orders...
Extraordinary interest appears to be shown in the coming performances of Aristophanes' "Birds" in the original Greek at Cambridge University next week. The play is to be performed nearly every night up to and including Friday, and so great has been the demand for seats that the authorities have had to arrange for an extra morning performance on Wednesday, in addition to the one previously announced for Saturday. Special trains are to be run to accommodate the crowds of visitors, and Cambridge is expected to present as lively a scene as is witnessed there at the annual commencement. Indeed...
...about $50,000. And little doubt was entertained that the amount could be easily raised. It was moreover suggested that the site of the building be selected near Brighton street, a location more suitable than the present one for many reasons. It may be that the new athletic grounds demand all our spare cash as well as that of generous graduates, but if not, it seems to us that the present is a most fitting time, at least for broaching the subject of a new boat house again...
...good many men have been summoned recently on account of cuts taken last year. This seems quite a useless thing. If the records show that a man has been absent from too many of his recitations, the faculty have the power to demand better attendance of him at the time; and why they do not do this, but wait until many months have passed, is a matter hard to understand. If their aim is to exact a more faithful attendance, surely it is easy to notify a man of the fact before he has completed the year in what...
...would suggest in view of the nearness of the game with Yale which '87 has soon to play, that the freshman event. The class which supports the eleven has the right to demand that every effort be made to ensure success on the part of the eleven, and this will not be done unless this measure is taken. It will certainly be a pity if with such material as the class possesses '87 does not make at least as good a record this fall as '86 did last season...