Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School Graduates Are in Demand...
...that, if the Barber is revived, M. Rotiche will insure Mme. Melius against sickness. In Vienna, Maria Jeritza declared that Tenor Piccaver, with whom she had been singing in Cavallcria Ritsticana, had sabotaged her success, stolen her thunder, seduced her applause, refused to throw her down as his role demanded. Vienna papers recalled what had happened to Maria Jeritza when another embattled tenor, Beniamino Gigli, threw her, as his role did not demand, into the footlights of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME. Feb. 9). That such another fall, the traditional corollary of pride, might not misbecome the famed soprano...
...Loan Library is in great need of old text books. Over 1700 were given out this year and the demand has far exceeded the supply. Science books are especially needed...
This is the first time that a book drive has been carried on by Phillips Brooks House. It is made necessary this year by the enormous demand which has been made on the Loan Library. Over 1200 books have been loaned out this year and requests for books continued long after the supply was exhausted. The drive is being conducted at this time because students have completed their courses and have no further use for their text books. Lawrence Coolidge '27, Librarian, stated last night that, "We know that there are a great many books thrown away or lost...
...text, however, shall be a sentence in the earlier address: "Give to History, give to Political Economy, that ample verge the times demand, but with no detriment to those liberal Arts which have formed open-minded men and good citizens in the past, nor have lost the skill to form them." From the point of view of our time this admonition of not quite half a century ago is somewhat startling. We need not nowadays concede to history or economics any place that they do not occupy; the need is rather of bringing home to future lawyers and captains...