Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Butterworth, '89, closed for the negative. Suppression is not needed. The Standard Oil Company has not raised prices, but has lowered them to the same point that competition would have done. It has adapted the supply to the demand, and has proved of incalculable benefit to the industry. The spirit of the times leads to trusts. They sprung up in all directions as a natural growth. The opposition comes from small tradesmen who have been undersold by the lowered prices, and from demagogues who wish to make political capital. Any attempt at suppression would be a blow at modern trade...
...character of the immigrants is good.- U. S. Consular Reports for 1887, Vol. LXXVI, pp. 44, 53, 63, 65, 103, 106, 121, 126. (b) There is no popular demand for the restriction of immigration. (c) The agitators for restriction are in the main political demagogues...
...demand for tickets has been very large and judging from the interest shown in the meeting by the students and the people of Boston generally, Tremont Temple will probably be tested tonight to its utmost capacity...
...college work. In the paper on factory life, the writer gives an account of the practice of black-listing mill hands prominent in labor organizations. If the testimony of the unfortunate black-listed men is true (and there seems little reason to doubt it) they have fearful grievances which demand redress. We lose sight of the fact that in these days of striking laborers, that the employers are not always the most upright of men. The employers are not the only sufferers and the claims of the employed must be regarded before labor troubles will cease...
...members of the University are entitled to register as borrowers on the presentation of the bursar's certificate. Three volumes can be taken at a time, and may be kept one month, and renewed, if not in demand. Any person keeping books beyond the prescribed time is subject to a fine of ten cents a day for each volume. Books reserved by officers of instruction, and unbound periodicals, are in open alcoves in the reading-room, and can be taken out, at the close of Library hours, when properly charged at the delivery desk, and must be returned the next...