Word: demand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the modern need for specialized training, teaching has become a profession in which the requirements for admission are steadily increasing in severity. As the demand grows for the trained teacher, universities throughout the country are enlarging their educational departments. At Harvard and Yale they have become an important division; and at Columbia and Chicago schools of education separate from the college have been formed...
...training camps this years is to be assured. Enrolment of men now need be only tentative; if a man is reasonably sure he will be able to go to a summer camp, he should sign at once, and if necessary he may withdraw later. The cause for this urgent demand for training-camp recruits is the announcement of the executive committee of the First Training Regiment Organization, to the effect that 5,000 college and business men must be registered for summer duty before March 15, to satisfy Congress that the camps are generally desired...
...this afternoon to collect old or useless text-books for the Phillips Brooks House loan library. Books used in any regular course are wanted by the Association, more particularly those employed in such largely attended courses as History 1, English A, English 28, Philosophy A, and Government 1, the demand for which is always great...
...taken up tomorrow. Students will be requested to give whatever books they no longer need, since the library is supported solely by voluntary contributions. Any books will be welcomed, but it is especially desired to obtain books which are used in the larger courses, as these are most in demand...
...importance of the demand for this work is the outstanding feature of the whole question. It exists so unquestionably that an attempt to meet it by the obvious method of employing them at Memorial should surely be made. Then some encouraging reply, promising definite employment, could be given to those men from other parts of the country who wish to come to Harvard and, unfamiliar with conditions in the East, need steady work until they can establish themselves. Such men, an increasing number of whom in the last few years have distinguished themselves scholastically, and as leaders in college activities...