Word: demands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Governing Board of the Union at a meeting yesterday afternoon decided to demand action on the question of compulsory membership in the Union, which was voted upon favorably by the entire University last spring. In the following letter to the chairman of the Administrative Board of the University and the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Union, a speedy change in the organization of the Union is requested in accordance with the decision of the University in May. The vote at that time was 926 for and 308 against compulsory membership. The complete text of the letter follows...
...wish to call your attention to the fact that the letter was prepared before it was publicly known that our government had protested to Germany. Now that such action has been taken, the force of the document will lie: first, in the evidence of the extraordinary unanimity of demand for, and approval of, this action in the bodies here represented; and second, in the urgent proposal that the action of our government be extended in the direction of consolidating as far as possible the opinion of all neutral nations in common and emphatic representations...
...other characters are not so successfully represented. However, there are a few brilliant exceptions. Samuel Tanner as a shyster lawyer is most convincing, but C. L. Felter as president of a women's college fails to exhibit even the weaknesses demanded of his part. In passing, we cannot but demand that he have his frock coat altered so that it will fit around his neck...
...second change of vital importance which is soon to be brought about affects the relation between the government and parliament. The inevitable demand of a genuine coalition ministry will, I am confident, be fulfilled after...
...wish tickets to the "Midnight Frolic" on the roof of the New Amsterdam Theatre for next Saturday night after the Yale game must apply for them before noon today. The demand for seats in New York has been so heavy that none can be held after that time. Tickets may be obtained at Leavitt and Peirce's or from N. E. Burbidge '17 Thayer...