Word: demands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should like to call attention to the strange neglect of the fives courts in the Carey Building. During the winter months the demand for indoor exercise at harvard has always been very great; the gymnasium and bowling alleys are often crowded, and every blank wall available is in demand for handball. That so good a game as fives should be ignored is a matter not only of regret, but of surprise. A careful enquiry has convinced me that not one man in three knows that the courts exist; and even those who do know it have never expressed their desire...
...much to the interest and excitement of the sport have recently been torn away, so that as the courts stand they are merely bad hadball courts. Even at this, however, there is no reason why they should stand idle during the season in which there is most demand for vigorous indoor exercise and recreation...
...slight curtailment of evening enjoyments. But for what purpose do we come to college? Earnest students will be glad to take courses in the evening if they can get them in no other way. Those who are not earnest students are certainly not worthy of consideration. Harvard men should demand as their right the opportunity now only nominally afforded them, of pursuing unhampered an individual, connected, and consecutive system of work during their four years at college...
...BRINE, 1312 and 1436 Mass. Ave.GREAT DEMAND FOR TICKETS.- It is doubtful if even the advent of Jenny Lind or the Prince of Wales years ago caused so much interest in Boston as the announcement that "Ian Maclaren," the author of Drumtochty Sketches, could be seen and heard next week in Tremont Temple...
...will seek professional musicians. Men engaged in the serious work of life go to a Glee Club concert to renew their relations with their Alma Mater and to live over, to some extent, their college days. If the concert does not satisfy this desire it is a failure. To demand, therefore, that the club shall not sing light and happy music is to impose upon it a condition that will doom it to failure...