Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football friends that they did not even hear the cheering during a game much less care whether there was any or not. Cheering is a stimulant for the cheerers. The fact that they once also carried flasks never, so far as I have heard, led any Bacchic enthusiast to demand the administration of alcoholic refreshment to the players between halves. But as--so I am told--it was formerly considered undesirable for too many of the spectators to become too exalted in one respect, so we have also been accustomed to put some check on our male Maenads of noise...
Although there is a waiting list of over 100 names for parts as non-vocal supers, the demand for men with voices is still unsatisfied. Morris Gest wants men with big voices, particularly basses, for work in the chorus. Such men will be given try-outs by application to the Advocate...
...college teachers could once by their teaching kindle the great mass of students to the actualities of life, if they could bring to them greater understanding of the demand the years will lay upon them, greater sense-of the privileges by which the struggle of life is postponed for them until they have had opportunity to prepare for it, the problem of undue emphasis and false values in college athletics would solve itself." Thus Dr. Charles W. Kennedy. Chairman of the Princeton Board of Athletic Control, gives to a no longer novel question a rather original turn. For a change...
...Many a coach in the past," he said, "has been tried, found wanting, and 'dropped' in deference to undergraduate and alumni demand for 'success,' who had accomplished all that could humanly be expected of him with the material at hand, but who from the beginning was all but doomed, and knew it, by the presence for three or four years at a rival institution of a few competitors of outstanding 'championship' callbre. Remembering this, one must admire the silent devotion to sport with which many a coach has labored for the development of his sport in the face...
With only two days remaining before the applications close for the Princeton game, half of the University's allotment of 22,000 seats has been applied for. Ten thousand seats are already reserved and the final demand for tickets is expected to exceed the supply...