Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large Harvard men resent being propagandized more than anything else; they demand a two-sided presentation of thorny questions and willingness on the part of purveyors of information to let them make up their own minds. An application of this theory to tonight's affair should have been made. It would not have been difficult to add to the list of speakers a rebel sympathizer who would dwell upon the Fascist solution of the Spanish struggle. It might even have been possible to advance one more step and invite a detached observer whose particular interest centered upon the international complications...
...June at an asking price of $1,500 on agreement to feed the six Birkenhead servants and pay their combined wages of $150 per month-and at that the young Earl is "open to offers." Today Manhattan agents are loaded up with such London houses, report "little or no demand"; but U. S. Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Mrs. Davies (see p. 24) have taken one of the largest mansions in all London for the Coronation...
...report card on which all the principal rules for the conduct of the pupil are to be inscribed. Establish a personal record for every pupil. . . . . Every five days the chief instructor of a class will examine the memorandum, will mark cases of absence and tardiness in it, and will demand the signature of the parent under all remarks of the instructor. . . . Underlying the ruling on the conduct of the pupils is to be placed a strict and conscientious application of discipline. ... In the personal record there will be entered for the entire duration of his studies the marks...
...increasing complexity and specialization of contemporary society. A physicist must know more than atomic structure, a pianist more than his keyboard, a politician more than his patronage system, a laborer more than his chain-belt. He must also attempt to understand the interrelationship of them all. Hence the demand for new leaders, whether they be philosophic journalists of untrammeled professors...
...More than ever before the demand for men trained in the Harvard School of City Planning has been much greater than the supply." Dean Hudnut states, and reports that no graduate in this field has been without employment for long. He stresses the point that in the present shift from private to public construction, the broad social background which the students receive, equips them better than mere training in physical planning...