Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been received by the CRIMSON. When the American forces began the great drive against the Germans in the Argonne region on September 26, Colonel Shannon obtained permission to leave an important post in the Personnel Bureau and go to the front. During the terrific fighting trained officers were in demand, and he was given command of a certain infantry regiment in the absence of its colonel. For his efficient service he was recommended for promotion to the rank of colonel, and being placed in command of the 112th Regiment Infantry, 28th Division, led that regiment in the assault and capture...
...disbanded, that upperclassmen may use the Smith Dining Hall. Standish and Gore Dining Halls are being used entirely by Freshmen and Unclassified Students, and many upperclassmen living in the Freshman Halls, or in the neighborhood, have to walk up to the Union for their meals. This may relieve the demand for tables in the Union sufficiently to give up the use of the Reading Room as a dining hall. Last year this room was changed into a University eating hall because Memorial Hall had been given over to the Radio School to use for its members...
...stress and strain of war times many duties have been neglected and many opportunities passed by in the University. Attendance at Chapel comes under both of these classes. For not even the increased demand upon the time of the student is sufficient to excuse the poor showing which has been made in the last year and a half both at Sunday services and at week-day prayers...
...revival of one of the plays of last year, "Her Flesh and Blood," on the same stages in Cambridge, Boston, and Ayer. Still later the Workshop players appeared at Ayer in yet another of its previous productions. The demobilization of the S. A. T. C. will naturally reduce the demand for such performances in Cambridge, but there is every indication that the Harvard-made-and-played dramas will make their contribution to the camp-life at Devens for some time to come. It is good to think that all this excellent public, or semi-public, service may be credited...
Again, the demand for athletics will be more general than before the War. Many men will leave the service, knowing for the first time what real bodily health means. They will expect the University to help them maintain that health, to offer an opportunity for regular, well-planned exercise...