Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is an aphorism to the effect that great teachers like great poets are born and not made. This is true only in a limited sense men whose characters are especially suited to teaching are, of course, not procurable in large quantities or on demand...
...field of concentration for which arrangements have already been made include Classics, English, History Government, Econimics, Mathematics, Romance Languages, and Social Ethics. If there is sufficient demand, tutorial instruction may be provided in other fields. Students interested in doing tutorial work during the Summer School session of 1927 may consult with the Director before June...
...Prince Danilo. There is no other! ... I am unspeakably pained to see myself travestied by a cheap cinema star* as staggering drunk through the Bois de Boulogne and dancing on tables in Maxim's, and at the same time trying to marry a widow for her fortune. I demand the immediate payment of 50,000 francs [$2,000]. The film constitutes a serious libel on myself, my family, chiefly my sister, the Queen of Italy, and on my late lamented country, Montenegro. "Although The Merry Widow has been presented as a light opera for over 20 years, I have...
...Your demand is without tact and inappropriate. When you write that you are all of the opinion that the position you took in the War was correct, you again betray a colossal ignorance of the fact that in all countries, without excepting the United States, statements are increasing in number from day to day which go to show that the United States fought for a bad cause...
President Lowell has approved definite plans for a club table system, to go into effect next winter. These arrangements, which provide for the erection of a dining hall at the corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke Streets demand that 500 students pledge themselves to eat at this building regularly for the first semester next year at a weekly expense of approximately...