Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...additional copies of Monday's CRIMSON commemorative of President Eliot's birthday, a very few that were at first reserved are in the CRIMSON office and may be had today by men who wish them. If the demand exceeds the small remaining number, forms of the issue will be recast and a new edition printed...
...more far-reaching importance than the labor problem is that of maintaining democratic ideals and the democratic virtues of self-respecting freedom, tolerance and regard for law and the common good. Against the recrudescence of militarism and its accompanying vices of ceremonialism in religion and law, bossism and the demand for "regularity" in politics, and snobbery in social relations.--for these things can no more he dissociated than can snow and ice from winter weather.--President Eliot has thrown the weight of his influence. Though in a position where a man of lower ideals could have amply gratified aristocratic yearnings...
...after the seat of the escape has been thrown back up to the window. Meanwhile the remaining occupant of the room would probably be suffocated or burned. As the wooden stairs would be the first thing to burn in a fire in any building, it seems only reasonable to demand a fire-escape for every occupant of a room. Yet reasonable as this is, it is almost a certainty that the authorities will never satisfy the demand. They are opposed to innovations. It is more picturesque to be old fashioned. And what enjoyment should we have in life without...
Professor Pickering makes in his introductory address to the President, an urgent appeal for money, and details some of the pressing needs of the Observatory, among which is the demand for new fire-proof buildings. In particular is it essential that the library of 29,393 volumes and pamphlets, one of the most complete of its kind in the country, should be protected from fire...
Because of the great demand for seats at Memorial, two more men than formerly will be assigned to each table. Club tables may select their additional men by leaving the names at the Auditor's office before the close of the dinner hour tonight...