Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This proposal, or at least its spirit, for such radical departures demand exact scrutiny before acceptance, is heartily commendable. As the geographical ratio of student enrollment has extended, so should the enrollment in Board of Overseers. It is not that a Board made up entirely of Boston or Cambridge graduates would not prove as effective as one whose membership included graduates from between the two coasts; men attaining the honor of Overseerships have Harvard's interests too close at heart to neglect her welfare or to ignore any one of her many compound parts. The reason for this move...
...present overproduction. If the Seminole wells could be shut off for a few days or if each well would restrict itself to produce, oil men estimate, only 200 barrels a day for a time, then consumers would use up the present excess. After a fortnight, supply should satisfy demand very evenly. It is Emissary Ray H. Collins' job to persuade Seminole Pool men to suck oil in unison, moderately...
...smallish town, such as Des Moines was in 1881, of which the essential function is to serve a surrounding population of farmers, it is hard to discover what types of higher education are really in demand. Drake, organized as a nonsectarian, co-educational plant, began by borrowing the six-year-old Law School of Simpson College at nearby Indianola, Iowa, and absorbing a five-year-old Iowa Medical College. These, plus a Liberal Arts School, made Drake a "university." In 1882 a department of pharmacy was added. In 1887, the Iowa College of Physicians was affiliated and the next year...
...very well to demand stories of college life from college authors. The bitter truth, however, is that such efforts mean little or nothing either as fiction or fact. There is a thing known as a sense of proportion and it is not entirely out of place in literature. Practically any college student who has passed his elementary courses in English composition can sit down and describe the life around him-as he see it. And the consequence in the majority of cases is extremely uninteresting and also inaccurate. His proximity to his material makes proper vision impossible; what he sees...
...remaining points of the summary of the Report are of interest to the entire university, including all men whether or not they belong to any club. As has been stated these two topics are direct efforts to improve eating facilities at Harvard, as such they demand sympathy. The points are namely...