Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that Harvard men are in greater demand this year as social service workers than ever before was announced yesterday by M. A. Cheek '26, former President of the Phillips Brooks House and now Assistant Graduate Secretary, in a preliminary statement issued before the social service meeting tonight. The New duties assumed by the six assistant secretaries of the Social Service Committee last year have resulted in this increased demand, according to Cheek. These secretaries kept in close touch with the amount of work done. The effect of this closer organization has been to increase the efficiency of the whole...
...Demand Exceeds Supply...
...post graduate work in Great Britain, too, demands much higher qualifications than does the same quality of work here. We do not admit men merely on the basis of some degree received in an ordinary academic coarse, but we demand students who by theses or other similar evidence have shown that they possess originality as well as mere parrotlike memory...
...Although I am positive that the light weight car is the car for the future, at the same time there is a demand for a limited number of big, extra powerful and luxurious motor cars. To meet this demand I am bringing back to the Stearns Motor Co. in which I have a large interest, a proposition which will give it the exclusive sale in the U. S. of a new Daimler-Knight sleeve-valve motor of 180 horsepower, the most powerful stock car ever built...
...once they learn the difficulties and pitfalls that await them. They try, in the first place, for any number of reasons. They may be brought out by a hangover of the preparatory school nation of being a Big Man around College. They may find that curricular work does not demand enough of their time to keep them busy. They may be bored. They may just wander in because they have formed the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens to the CRIMSON candidate. He may drop in after two or three days, tell...