Word: demands
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...exercised only on the sport. Isn't this a bit unreasonable? In a communication the other day by Mr. Derby we are led to believe that from those absences which occur at the end of a major sport season the Faculty naturally deduces that such sport to demand such method of recuperation in one of excess. Doubtless they do. But isn't this again an example of ignorance to be traced from unconcern over the success of that season? Here's a simpler explanation of those absences-the debilitation of re-echoing defeat, nothing but defeat! It is a natural...
...surprising expansion of the various departments of the University during the last 20 years is well exemplified by the growth of the Appointments Bureau. The Bureau was founded in 1887 by the late Frank Bolles '82, then Secretary of Harvard College, in order to stimulate a demand for undergraduate helpers, and to make independent of financial worries ambitious men of small means. The success of the Bureau was instantaneous, and about 200 men were secured employment during the first year. A few years later the Bureau was extended so as to include Harvard graduates, and in 1897 the Appointments Committee...
Applications for rooms in College buildings must be in today. A word of advice may save the applicants from considerable inconvenience. There are a good many technical requirements to be fulfilled before the applications can be considered, chief of which is the demand that a bond be properly filed with the Bursar. Many men have been disappointed in the past through neglect of the minor details. Let their misfortune be a warning to others...
...tennis courts recently built on Soldiers Field were to relieve the increased demand upon Jarvis Field caused partly by the building of Landell Hall. This transfer of courts from Holmes Field has greatly increased the congestion on Soldiers Field, and taken two diamonds formerly used for scrub baseball or the so-called "Leiter Cup Series." The Athletic Committee is desirous of developing Soldiers Field as soon as possible in order to encourage sport among undergraduates, who wish to take part without severe training or excessive expenditure of time
...interesting and instructive address, delivered recently by Rudyard Kipling before the students of McGill University. In an age when values are reckoned so absolutely in dollars and cents, the testimony of a man who has faced life from every possible side, and has found money a secondary aim, should demand more than passing notice...