Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion on the purposes of a liberal education can be formulated Understanding of life necessarily brings with it intellectual fitness for life, which is the ultimate test of the success or failure of an educational system. It is considered doubtful how far the college is at present fulfilling this demand. Dr. Meiklejohn says not at all. That is a dangerous generalization for it infers a uniformity in methods which does not exist. Probably there has never been a time when a greater variety of experiments were being conducted or suggested by serious men. The very existence of such experiments...
...foresee the lessened respect for law which actually developed. We never anticipated the enormous increase which took place in the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages, even as compared with pre-Prohibition days, by way of moonshine, home brew and smuggled whiskey, and the corresponding decrease in the demand for soft drinks...
...privilege of English authors and a penance for American audiences, he makes odious comparisons between British actresses and those of Broadway. He says that the lovely ladies of the Strand do not possess the accomplishments of their transatlantic sisters. They do well at "drawing room comedy where the only demand on their art is facile chatter," but in the heavier drama, the hair-fearing tragedy, they must bow to the superiority of American rivals...
...Phillips Brooks House Student Lecture Bureau, inaugurated last spring to answer the constant demand for undergraduate members of the University to speak at schools, churches and junior athletic meetings, has proved itself a pronounced success...
Members of the football team and social service workers are in especial demand as orators for New England gatherings, according to a statement yesterday by officials of the Phillips Brooks House. W. N. Bump '28, Chairman of the Bureau, receives daily five or six communications asking for Harvard men to speak on various topics at local meetings. Many of these letters come from districts as far removed as Maine and Vermont and enclose train fare for the itinerant elocutionist...