Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearts of Harvard men everywhere. It does not smack unduly of small-town collegiate spirit to enjoy hearing the football songs and "Fair Harvard." The protests raised by the alumni in several western cities during the spring trip of the society show that the old songs are in demand. They should not be forgotten in the zeal for a better Glee Club...
Prevailing opinion in the trade appears to be that the big sale of shoes in the Grand Central Palace at cost prices by the Nemours Trading Corporation reflects chiefly the failure of war-devastated Europe to come up to American expectations in demand and ability to pay for needed American products...
...Sophomores, who have been accustomed to exercise regularly in their first year, complicates the situation which the already harassed athletic authorities must meet. Although as yet the limit of accommodation for teams of every kind has not been met the margin is not broad enough to satisfy the growing demand. Three years from now, when every class in the college has received the benefit of the compulsory training system and has gained the habit of regular exercise, the gymnasiums and fields, with their present equipment, will be insufficient...
...close very appropriately with the admonition that our honor, etc., demand that we "aid in setting the Mexican house in order and keeping it in order." Do you, or does any other American, think that Mexico will submit to a mandate or any other kind of protectorate without resistance? Then you do indeed know the Mexicans but little, for that matter, no country, with any self-respect will. Even as little a nation as Nicaragua didn't accept a mandate without bloodshed and protests. How can Mexico? You tell us that "war may be an amusing national industry...
Interest in the Italian language and literature has been much quickened by the war, and to meet the increasing demand for new textbooks and new editions of modern Italian novels and plays, the University of Chicago Press is to issue shortly, the first volumes in a new series, "The University of Chicago Italian Series," which will be under the editorship of Ernest Hatch Wilkins (Harvard Ph.D. '10), a well-known authority on Italian literature...