Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...various roads, but their request for "cut" rates was politely but firmly refused. The reasons given for discrimination in favor of Yale, and against Harvard students, were perfectly satisfactory. New Haven is a way station, so to speak, and as the tickets issuing from there are not in great demand in the market, no one but bona fide students made use of the "cut" rates. But a ticket from Boston for any other city is always in demand, and the railroads found that some students were making a speculation of their privilege, and that their tickets were rapidly finding their...
...movement represented by that institution towards the introduction of co-education at Harvard. The annex, we are told, looks forward with hope and confidence to the time when, backed by a rich endowment and a powerful clientage, it may knock at the doors of this ancient university and demand admission as a constituent part of its organization. The prospects of any such an event of course are so far removed into the future as to prevent any apprehension whether pleasant or otherwise of its realization. Indeed the majority, we believe, very fairly are inclined to regard such a vision...
...society does not aim to create but to satisfy a demand for the higher education of women. During the year there were the following classes and students...
...will say that it is here a compulsory custom. The faculty require that with each number the editors' names appear in full. It is no more in keeping with our own personal taste in the matter than it is with Harvard's, but the law of the Medes, etc., demand it, you know. [Yale News...
...opened with a spirited denunciation of the Republican party, asserting the necessity that it should be defeated. both this fall and in 1884. He claimed that Gen. Butler's acts and declarations had always been consistent with each other, and that the marvelous unity of the people's demand for his election was sufficient justification of his candidature. Mr. F. M. Hayes, '84, in opening for the negative, compared the record of the Democratic and Republican parties, and drew conclusions in favor of the latter and its continuance in power. He maintained that the financial prosperity of the country would...