Word: demands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...months ago and the Fund still lacks $4,000 of the promised sum. There is only one thing that can be done and that is pay up immediately. At this time when rent and Bursar bills are stretching our credit to the limit, any extra payment is a difficult demand to make. Nevertheless, those who have pledged must remit immediately, or somebody else will have to make up the shortage out of his pocketbook. We have to send in to the Y. M. C. A. the amount we promised them,--we do not want to admit that the University...
...Department. After listening to cross-examinations as well as suggestions for a supreme war council, Secretary Baker has formulated a plan to energize the general staff. Whether this measure will prove a remedy for our inefficiency or whether it will turn out to be an evasion of the demand for a more powerful board can not be immediately determined. Because the staff has not yet gained the powers to enforce its suggestions, a fault, which recent criticism sought to remedy, the reorganization may have little effect. Although there is internal improvement, yet the gain is partially offset by the inability...
...other hand there is still great need to keep our youth occupied in the business of education. There seems to be no less demand for college-trained men. That which has almost been accomplished in this year's study will be practically lost. There is a vast distance between the nearly finished and the finished product. We may not be acquainted with the facts which the Fuel Administration has, but it seems rather clear that the amount of coal saved by closing the colleges will not compensate the loss which thousands of students will undergo...
...American forces occupy more trenches, and as their losses constantly increase, the demand for surgeons will grow. At present a large force is needed to prevent sickness, but an even larger one will be necessary in a few months to repair the injuries caused by the Boches. These men must come from special institutions with special training, for doctors do not rise from the ranks. Just as some students are given particular instruction that they may become line officers, so others must learn the medical profession. The duty of anyone who has intended to study medicine is to follow...
...Department will always have within easy reach a large number of recruits well fitted for military service. Since we are no yet in that serious condition which forces our allies to conscript everyone capable of bearing arms, we hesitate to draft men under age. Although necessity may not demand this step, yet it does require that all who are of age be enrolled as soon as possible...