Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meet the demand of men who intend to enter business houses in foreign countries, conversation courses have been instituted at Harvard in German, Spanish and French. But these very courses are allowed to be over-run with formal grammar and written translations. The conspicuous characteristic of such courses is the students' silence. Usually the conversation in the particular foreign language is limited to the professor's monologue. The mistake lies in the impossible attempt to weld both practical and cultural aims. Since poetry is not taught in conjunction with plumbing, why should art be combined with the language of foreign...
Many other colleges are now indirectly sharing with the University the benefits of the "Haughton System." Haughton tutored players are in great demand as coaches, and several are now engaged in instructing college teams. P. Withington '09, E. W. Soucy '16 and J. A. Doherty '16 are at Wisconsin. Withington is acting in the capacity of head coach, and Soucy and Doherty are assisting with the ends and backs. C. E. Brickley '15 is in charge at Boston College and E. W. Mahan '16 at the University of California. A. J. Weatherhead '16 is coaching the Bowdoin eleven...
...unduly impressed with the desire or demand for athletic supremacy, but we do feel that so long as Yale makes herself responsible through the corporation, the faculty, the graduates, and the undergraduates for orderly, effective and wise conduct of this branch of undergraduate activity, continued failure can result in ever-growing distrust and despondency, and consequent injury to the general morale of the institution and the public regard for the university...
...problem before the colleges today is quite different from that of sixty years ago. Business schools and graduate scientific schools have been founded to meet the demand of the changed wants of the students. In the same way the methods of teaching English and the different literatures have been adjusted to the altered intellectual tastes of the students...
When tickets are in great demand, only one ticket will be mailed to any one applicant or in any one stamped, addressed envelope...