Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House clothing drive, which began yesterday, will be directed by H.K. Thayer '25, under the general supervision of R.P. Bullard '24, social service secretary. Inasmuch as the demand for the used clothing is unusually heavy this year, the officers have issued a special appeal for generous donations...
...tobacco, rice, and coconut. These products are largely absorbed in the islands, but some, especially hemp, is exported to the United States, Europe, and Australia. The soil of the Philippine farms is especially adapted to the culture of rubber trees, the refined product of which has been in little demand by Filipinos and consequently, the rubber trees have not been planted and grown...
...education as an aid in the struggle for a livelihood. It is doubtless true that it will not, like the technical education, assure anyone of an immediate and fairly lucrative place in the production machine of the nation. Engineers, draughts men, and accountants and their ilk are in constant demand. But the very fact that they have been trained in one sole field usually keeps them engineers, drafts men and accountants. For the positions at the top, it is the knowledge of human nature and human relations and the hospitality to new ideas which a liberal education is supposed...
...present dispute has, in its growth, resembled that of 1896, although it comes at an apparently more opportune time. Then the goal was at first merely the correction of governmental abuses; but the attack gradually shifted, as it has in the present movement, to a demand for complete independence...
Harvard is determined to defeat Princeton. Undergraduates and graduates are going to Princeton ready to support the team to the last ditch. But they are also going to "demand a win". Two years of defeat have cut deeply into the undergraduate spirit and the University will not be satisfied this year with explanations or excuses; nothing but victory will suffice...