Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...value of the present competition will be increased if the participants show by their interest that the demand for instruction in dramatic writing is a genuine one. The Dramatic Club is making as great an effort as it can to fill the gap left in the English department by the exodus of Mr. Baker, but it cannot alone complete the task it has set for itself. Dramatic writing is as important a form of expression as is fiction and poetry, and as such should be recognized by the English Department. The present lack of balance in composition courses should...
...task can be helped by insistence that the Federal, state and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can never be helped by merely talking about it. We must act, and act quickly...
...Blue's team becoming definitely superior to the Crimson one. This point is open to question, but such a stiff schedule of games will naturally result in more thorough, even if unofficial, late summer training, and probably an improvement in calibre. Enthusiastic Harvard alumni will as a result probably demand that Harvard follow Yale's action with like steps. As a matter of fact, a glance at the Crimson schedule will show that it is heading in that direction, with six hard and two easy games in 1934, in contrast to five hard and three easy ones...
...advisable that Harvard follow Yale for purely economic reasons, as such action would constitute a reversal of Harvard's newer policy which stresses "athletics for all." If financial stringencies point inevitably toward such a stop in order to balance the H.A.A. budget, it is time once more to demand a sane budget founded on an endowment fund made possible through strict economies and a fixed revenue realized by the placement of a standard fee on all undergraduate term bills...
Although almost all the merchants in Harvard Square are advertising today that they will extend credit and honor checks when presented with Bursar's card, the bootleggers in the vicinity demand honest-to-goodness money. The H.A.A. has announced that they will take checks for tickets for the hockey game with Yale tonight, but seven out of ten "importers and exporters" refused to supply beverages for checks. They seemed to oppose it on the grounds that it was not straightforward business. Three local dispensers were even willing to have charge accounts opened, although insisting on a personal interview first...