Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Western University can be added to the roll of those institutions of learning which have safely passed through the financial crisis. Cultured foreigners, visiting us are puzzled at the American attitude toward education. Other countries have their universities but nowhere is there such an ever increasing demand for entrance to college. It is the vision of thousands of young men and women preparing for entrance examinations which has caught the sympathy of America. They want to go to college and no one who can possibly help them is able to turn down the appeal...
...college man starts into the world with better assurance of success than the man who never went to college. And young young America is so much aware of this fact that--numerous as our universities and colleges are, and tremendous as is the sum of their enrollment--the demand is greater than the accommodation, and is, becoming one of our biggest national problems...
State universities in the West are offering free tuition to all who can maintain themselves at these institutions. There is little doubt that a strong demand for such an extension of university facilities will come in the East. Many more young people have set their minds upon going to college than the present privately-endowed institutions can contain...
...demand justifies publication, the Varsity Club will issue a 400-page volume, the "H" Book of Harvard Athletics", to contain an illustrated history of the athletic teams that have represented the University, chiefly against Yale, in the five major sports--crew, baseball, football, track and hockey. The names of 2000 graduates have been selected at random and with 700 members of the Varsity Club will receive communications dealing with the proposed volume. A subscription blank will accompany each letter; and if the returns from this test are favorable, the publications committee, of which G. B Morison '83, president...
Owing to the remarkably large demand for tickets the "47 Workshop" matinees, scheduled to entertain New York audiences on April 18 and 19, will be given at the Morosco Theatre instead of at the Little, a much smaller house, as previously announced. Definite plans have now been not for the theatrical tour. The players will leave for New York on Sunday, April 17, perform there on Monday and Tuesday, and afterwards will visit Utica, Buffalo and Cleveland. Just previous to the New York trip Professor G. P. Baker '87 will take the "47 Workshop" to Worcester and possibly to other...