Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...team will hold practice games with the Harvard team in the B. A. A. tank. Half-hour practice will be held three or four times a week. Several games can be arranged with water polo teams, although no negotiations have yet taken place. The game does not demand very strong swimmers, and Dr. Sargent considers it an exceedingly good form of exercise. There will be another meeting of the team immediately after the recess, at which the committee will report as to the conference with the Boston Athletic team...
...objectionable features of the game have been done away with, however, for the present rules, as amended by Dr. Sargent, do not allow the ball to be wrenched away from a player. At the same time the demand for skill in the game has been increased...
While we criticised the last number of the Lampoon as exceptional in its general interest, the current issue is by no means worthy of such praise. We have criticised some numbers as being of sectional interest rather than of general. The present number tries to cater to general demand, but fails of its own weakness. While we are glad to see the Lampoon broadening in its views we regret that it is unable to attain a uniform standard...
...United States refuses annexation, there is every reason to believe that Japan would encourage the emigration of her subjects to Hawaii, demand the rights of citizenship for them, and when her interests should predominate in the islands, protect those interests by extending her sovereignty over the islands. The United States is to decide the destiny of Hawaii. Failure to annex means that England will get the islands, or that they will go to Japan...
...members of the present Freshman class the small hand-book, containing information about the religious societies and the different organizations in college. Over seventeen hundred copies were distributed in this way and at the beginning of the year, but even that number was insufficient to meet the demand. During the week preceding the day of registration, an information bureau was opened in Holden Chapel, where several members of the association were present daily to welcome and assist new students. A list of three hundred boarding places was carefully prepared, thus enlarging the similar work of the college office. On October...