Word: demand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...give every man his day in court that you printed the letter which appeared yesterday objecting to Mr. Humphries' talk on Russia. While recognizing the sincerity of its authors, it seems to me that one cannot hope too earnestly that their views may not prevail. Their letter's intolerant demand for the suppression of facts about Russia ought not to prevail in an institution dedicated to to Truth, and is as dangerous to the accomplishment of the university's contribution to national life as the current journalistic claptrap which inspired it is to the orderly development of our democratic system...
...University who are ready to answer the calls for teachers in the Near and Far East, which are being received by the Harvard Appointment Office. Positions are open in China, Japan, and in Roberts College, Constantinople. Men capable of teaching science, mathematics, and French are especially in demand although teachers of other subjects might be considered...
...from preparatory schools in many states of this country, including California, Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, and New York, while opportunities in colleges in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Texas are also open. In all of these, men to teach science, mathematics, English and Latin are in particular demand...
Only a few matches were played off yesterday in the first day of the squash tennis and racquets tournaments. The demand on the courts is already so great that it has been decided to change the length of the matches to three games out of five, instead of four out of seven...
...year ago the colleges were disorganized by the necessities of war and the changes they had to make to meet the demand for officers' training camps. As educational institutions they had almost ceased to function. They were military camps first and colleges afterward...