Word: demands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many objections were found, but the most vital one was overlooked. Men who know themselves to be honorable would feel that they were degrading themselves if they should call to their aid eleven men to help them ascertain that honor, and they would ask that the same consideration they demand for themselves be given to their fellows. Public opinion is weak at Harvard to-day because it is not allowed to grow. Men are "suspects" the minute they enter the examination room. You cannot make a man morally strong by making him feel that he is watched. Men must...
...spring for the purpose of advancing his trade interests in that section of the country. Mr. Dunne has always had uniform success with his patrons and has established a reputation among college men which places his firm in the front rank of the merchant tailors who supply the demand made by students of the country for exclusive and novel goods...
...reviewing the past season of foot-ball, nothing stands out so clearly as the immense progress the game has made in popular favor. While men who have been actual players will always enjoy anything that resembles their favorite sport, the large majority of people demand, and have been demanding for years, certain reforms in foot-ball, before installing it finally in their minds as the sport par excellence of the Thanksgiving season...
DEBATE OF JANUARY 18, 1888.Resolved, That the best interests of the United States demand the return to power of the Republican party...
...soft enough and hesitating enough for the occasion. Were I living in Cambridge I should search in vain for any such. But so far away as I am, at my age too (who am on the edge of my seventieth year) and with the many duties that just now demand my instant and exclusive attention-for it is high time I should be putting my house in order-I feel that I am warranted in denying a petition which, under other circumstances, I should receive as a command, and in declining a duty to which, at best I could give...