Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been begun on the tennis courts on Jarvis Field and if the weather continues warm it is hoped that the old courts will be ready for use by April 5. Last year, out of the 20 courts on Jarvis Field, only two were double and there was a great demand for more. This year, four more double courts, two at each end of Jarvis Field, will be laid out and will probably be ready for use a few weeks later than the old ones. Together with the court on Holmes Field, the total number of courts this year will...
...education and a workshop for professional training, but at least the high school ought to be faithful to its only goal of general education without professional anticipations. The division of labor lies on the outside; we are specialists in our handiwork, but our heart-work is uniform, and the demand for individualized education emphasizes the small differences in our tasks, and ignores the great similarities. And finally, who is able to say what a boy of twelve years will need for his individual life's work...
...graduates, who live mostly in Ward One, employ the club-house a great deal, a good many of the unmarried ones boarding there; but it draws members without difficulty for its "smoke-talks" and other gatherings from all parts of Cambridge. Besides all this, its hall is constantly in demand for receptions and dances...
...Provost's report acknowledges gifts received during the past year amounting to something over $600,000, and discusses the relation of undergraduate and graduate courses. Heretofore graduates have been barred from courses intended for college students except in a very few cases, and there is a growing demand for a class of courses like those at Harvard intended "for graduates and undergraduates." The chief difficulty lies in the objection to admitting the women in the graduate school to college courses...
...final victory for which there will probably be cups as prizes. As the Sophomore team is exceptionally strong this year a very fast game may be expected. The first game of the final series will be played Friday on Spy Pond or Soldiers Field, as the case may demand...