Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general examination is the most interesting effort Harvard is making to restore respect for college ranking. It is given at the end of the Senior year and makes a double demand upon the student. He is obliged to review at the end of his last year the entire ground covered by him in his chosen field. Also he is obliged to do some outside reading and study in order to correlate the courses which he has taken and fill up, to some extent, the intervals between them. This is not parallel to the general information examination which has been given...
...first place a university has the right to demand from its students some reciprocal benefit. It is indeed more blessed to give than to receive, but, in the case in point, continued giving and no adequate return impoverishes the intangible fund of character and tradition that is the mainstay of a successful university. For such itinerant students take all the intellectual benefits they can assimilate and return nothing in the form of loyalty and enduring "carry...
...policy toward renewals. This, however, may afford temporary relief, but conditions will have to eventually get back to normal, and in this period of readjustment, someone must suffer. As Senator Edge of New Jersey says, "The only durable and infallible barometer of business is the law of supply and demand, and to set up an artificial and false structure for the maintenance of prices, because certain industries are suffering, is only postponing the evil day when all business industry, including farmers, will have to face the music...
...dispute the Governor's characterization of the "present conditions" relating to the enforcement of prohibition as scandalous. "Open and notorious violation," flagrant acts of corruption"--if these manifestations are not enough to warrant such a demand as Governor Miller makes, then we had better stop professing to be governed by law. One point in the message should appeal with special force to those who have objected to the Eighteenth Amendment as an invasion of State rights. If we are to leave its enforcement to the Federal Government it would require "an army of agents in every State," which "manner...
...Physical Training Department has installed five full-sized handball courts at Hemenway Gymnasium to take once of the popular demand for this game. The courts have been installed next to the bowling, alleys and were made possible by replacing, the wire fence which has always separated the alleys from the exercising room by a board partition. Indications at Hemenway yesterday showed that the courts filled a song felt need in the University, since all but five were occupied during the entire afternoon...