Word: demand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...demand for the report of the Harvard Commitee on Composition and Rhetoric has proved so great, and the cost of printing is so considerable, that the pamphlet is to be sold hereafter for 50 cents...
...this instruction may not fall upon the college. There is, perhaps, only one way to force upon schools this need of better instruction and that is to present harder examinations in English till the schools have trained their pupils to the requisite proficiency in composition. In this way the demand for greater proficiency will in time work itself back to the very primary schools and the result will be an improvement in the teaching of rhetoric and composition from the very beginning. Such a result as this will be doubly successful, for it will affect not only pupils preparing...
...library devoted solely to one subject, is felt the more strongly by those who have known what it is to be without these libraries. And, moreover, it is just the books which the graduating class can give to these libraries that are the books in greatest demand. Most men are apt to get the books which are most needed by them, and thus will be most needed by those who come after them, and the richer these class-room libraries can become in the very books which are most in demand, the greater will be the advantages of study offered...
Owing to the large demand for Class Day tickets, the Committee must adhere to the custom of former Committees in selling but one package to each senior. At the sale today, therefore, one package may be purchased by those seniors who have not yet bought a package. The sale will take place at the rear window of 10 Holworthy between the hours of 1.30 and 2.30 p. m. Yard tickets will be on sale to all seniors. Packages containing five yard and five Memorial tickets will be sold to graduating members of other departments of the University. This...
...ought not to stand in the way of the comfort of those who pay their money to see the game. And then it must be remembered that people are paying very much more this year than usual for their reserved seats. The management has taken advantage of the great demand for tickets and has put up the price of reserved seats alone to one dollar. Under such circumstances the excuse that the alterations would entail too great an expense finds little ground to stand on. It all comes down practically to this; people pay a high price for their seats...