Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Either Harvard's high standard is right and should be defended, come what may, or it is wrong and should be modified. The demand of the professional schools to have men graduated younger will not be met by keeping the standard where it is, and cutting off the freshman year. Moreover that process would sever Harvard's connections with the fitting schools and leave her hanging to the stars. If the professional schools are to be satisfied by any action which the colleges can take, it is the senior year which must be sacrificed. After all, a Harvard junior...
Again, the overseers demand a more rigid enforcement of attendance at recitations. We do not see how this can be more rigidly enforced than it is at present, unless the penalty of dismissal from college be attached to every one who has the terrible audacity to "cut" recitations at all. The third suggestion that "the system of advisers, somewhat as applied to special students, be extended to the freshman class," is just about as foolish as the preceding ones. When a man enters college, he is supposed to have enough common sense-if he is ever going to have...
...courses in electrical engineering added last fall to the curriculum of the Scientific School, and mentioned in another column, go far towards supplying an increasing demand among the scientific students of the University. This addition already makes our course in electricity superior to that pursued in many purely scientific schools. The present facilities, however, are inadequate for the purposes of the scientific faculty. It is firmly believed that many men would be glad to take a practical course in the workshop, especially as such a course would combine exercise with pleasure. In case this should prove true, as it undoubtedly...
...been collected and bound for use in the reading room; but for some reason the assortment is by no means as complete as it should be. The mid-year papers have not been kept for the past six or seven years, although these are the very ones now in demand. The old examinations are of little value on account of the continual advance in the courses and change of instructors, and the corresponding variance in the character of the questions. The constant use which is made of even these old specimens and of the final papers shows the urgent need...
...ringing of the bell. It is, of course, necessary at times for the lecturer to detain his class for two or three minutes. When, however, this delay becomes a settled practice as it has with a few professors we feel that the trouble thereby caused is serious enough to demand a protest. Strict observance of college hours is a virtue which may well be adopted by both professors and students. Tardiness is a contagious habit particularly if it is manifested by one whose position makes him an example for others...