Word: demand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...edition of 2000 volumes of the Register was issued this year at a cost of over $1 a books. It was planned not only to supply the demand of the student body for the publication but also to make possible for students and alumni to send copies to high and preparatory schools, colleges, and libraries throughout the country. In this manner the manifold student activities and interests of the University would be brought before people interested, as well as prospective sub-Freshmen. Unfortunately the plans and expectations of the Register Board miscarried. Eight hundred volumes are still on hand...
...article on "Engineering as Related to the Incandescent Lamp Industry," reveals the tremendous proportions of this one business and the demand for trained young men to carry it on. The author, himself a Harvard men, feels that more Harvard men should be engaged in this industry. One reason may be ignorance on the part of most undergraduates of the unsurpassed facilities for studying electrical engineering at Harvard...
...Forum and Student Council. The members of the class have shown their interest in the institution and the students by pledging their best support, and by recommending to President Lowell that he appoint a committee to carry this matter through. No one realizes better than President Lowell that the demand for the new gymnasium is tremendously strong, and furthermore, no one knows better than he how much Harvard men have been called on of late to give large sums for other purposes. However, the time has now come for definite action. The class of 1910 has taken the first step...
...spent less well--some think it is spent ill--in the preparation of comparatively few men for single great contests, in costly journeys to the scenes of those contests, in prolonged use of the training table, and in some other things which college athletics as now conducted demand. On the other hand, without the great contests there would be less money to spend; and there is, I suppose, some question whether contests without elaborate preparation would be regarded as great. In this question something may be learned from the game between the Army and the Navy, which rivals in interest...
...building, erected in 1861, was thought then to be fully capable of serving as the home of the Presidents for many years. With the growth of the University, however, and the demand for more space, a building larger and more suitable for purposes of entertainment was needed...