Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concentrating in literature (as, I think, Dr. Magoun has a right to believe that most of his students are), has not the instructor the right to assume that those who attend his course are already possessed of this delight. After all, this is certainly a small prerequisite to demand of one specializing in literature in college. Furthermore Comparative Literature 6 is "for undergraduates and graduates." Why should the graduate students be neglected? I fancy that Dr. Magoun did not exact much of the mechanics of literature from them. Such things are usually in a course for the benefit of graduate...
Coxswains are in especial demand and will find it to their advantage to report at once in order to gain experience in fall rowing. Men whose weight is under 125 pounds are eligible as coxswains, irrespective of experience...
...care whether a man knows which end of his oar to put into the water," declared Coach Stevens yesterday in a vigorous demand for men to come out for the fall crew squad. "The more inexperienced a man is, the better he is suited to our purposes. If inexperienced men come out now, they can begin rowing under the personal supervision of the coaches and get the principles of rowing correct from the start...
Statistics recently compiled illustrate how successfully this "quick turnover" policy is being followed in respect to the commodities most greatly in demand...
...from their very nature can not be too systematically coordinated. The course will provoke enthusiasm from those few who have a decided bent for this sort of thing and from the rest the semi-boredom with which the majority of students always regard a course so conducted as to demand much memorizing at the expense of creative thought...