Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...welcomed that facilitates the use of the Library, show how valuable is the aid it gives to members of the University. In view of all this, the opening of the Library on Sunday suggests the further step of opening it also during the evening. That there is a demand for this we hardly need to point out. The only sound objection is in the danger from fire; but good authorities, both in and out of the Library, repeatedly assert that danger from fire exists no more here than in the Boston Public Library, which, it is well known, is attended...
...there were, they could be obtained for six dollars. Why is this firm out of copies? Because, as one of the salesmen explained to the writer, Mr. Sever came in before the term began and bought up all they had. Why do not Messrs. Lee & Shepard anticipate a demand for the book by students? Because Mr. Sever has the cooperation of the Harvard Faculty, and he alone knows what books and how many will be demanded...
...students suffer by it, and the number is large of those who go to the city to buy when they hear that they can get what they want there. I think there is plenty of room in Cambridge for another bookstore. If no dealer comes forward to supply the demand for books at better prices, the professors should take the initiative and divide their orders between Mr. Sever and some one else. They have the power to furnish us with lowpriced books, and it is a shame that, having this power, they continue to allow and encourage a burdensome monopoly...
...dismiss their sections after a short recitation. Others, however, persisted in keeping their sections crowded together, without regard to health, as though students were so many sheep. This may be endurable in some rooms, but in University, especially U. E. R., it is too much for instructors to demand or for students to submit to. Admirable as is this perseverance with which a teacher is willing to subject himself to a temperature of 98 degrees rather than get behindhand in his course, we doubt the right to impose his zeal upon a large number of young men, in such...