Word: demands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...defeated team, challenged Yale to a game this fall. In reply Yale refused to consider a challenge unless the Harvard team would formally disavow certain statements made by a Harvard coach,- a thing which they could not truthfully do. Harvard then made the only possible answer to this demand, and assuming that Yale's position, whether reasonable or unreasonable, was taken in good faith, supposed that there was an end for the present of all athletic relations between the two universities. For it was impossible to see, considering that every intercollegiate sport at Harvard is under the supervision...
...answered in the same spirit, the result was that the athletic relations between the two universities lapsed. Obviously they could only be restored by the party that broke them off. Here comes the whole question at issue. Which college really took the initiative, the one that made a demand which public opinion has adjudged it impossible to comply with without loss of self-respect, or the one that merely states its inability to accede to this demand? "Call black, white," says Yale, "or we shall not play." "We cannot," says Harvard. Whose fault is it that there is no game...
...Harvard Forum holds a competitive debate for membership in Harvard 1 at 7.30 tonight. The question will be: "Resolved, That the best interests of the country demand the election of President Cleveland for a third term." The principal disputants are, for the affirmative, F. Dobyns '98 and E. F. Southworth '97; and for the negative, W. S. Youngman, L. S., and R. G. Valentine '96. Professor Baker and Mr. Hayes will be judges...
...Harvard Forum holds a competitive debate for membership in Harvard 1 at 7.30 p. m. The question will be: "Resolved, That the best interests of the country demand the election of President Cleveland for a third term." The principal disputants are, for the affirmative, F. Dobyns '98 and E. F. Southworth '97; and for the negative, W. S. Youngman, L. S., and R. G. Valentine '96. Professor Baker and Mr. Hayes will be judges...
...most conspicuous demand, however, is that of social service. On the surface there is still the scrambling of individualism, but beneath all self-seeking there is heard the call of social service. There is coming a new appreciation of the words: "No man liveth to himself," and "Bear ye one another's burdens...