Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...baseball schedule which has been arranged shows a decrease by one game from the number of last year. considering that in the last two years the schedules have been very heavily cut, this unimportant reduction is certainly a reasonable concession to the demand, less insistent this year, for shortened schedules. It is doubtful whether the team could be properly developed if the number of games was any less...
...fact is established that whenever men as individuals are free to work, to earn, and to save and use their earnings as they deem fit, the capable everywhere tend to rise to prosperity. Skillful men are always in demand at good wages. Thus as the moral side is also developed by individualism and competition, the strongest characters are secured...
...distributed among hospitals, reading-rooms and charity homes. The text-book loan library, which has been of great service to many, is supplied with books received in this collection and needs those books used in large courses such as History 1, Government 1, and Economics 1, as the demand for these is the greatest...
Since the close of the football season the press of the country has voiced a general demand for revision of the football rules. An undue number of severe injuries and the preponderance of mass plays are the features of the game which are most severely criticised. In the months following the season of 1905 a similar protest caused the Rules Committee to make radical reforms in the game; It seems likely that some changes must also be made this year to meet the expectations of those who are dissatisfied with present conditions...
Certainly cross-country running is a sufficiently important branch of track to be made a "legitimate" field in which to win one's letter. It is not a trivial sport. With the possible exception of rowing, there is no exercise which makes such a demand upon the grit and stamina of the athlete, and which leaves him in such an exhausted condition. Moreover, the distance runners in the spring are often the cross-country runners of the preceding fall. At Yale the letter is awarded to those runners who finish within twelfth place in the intercollegiate run, whether Yale wins...