Word: demands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That there is a distinct demand for plays of this type is shown by the welcome which the players received at the Century Theatre in New York. Among the Eastern colleges and universities, the Portmanteau Theatre has met with especial enthusiasm. It is well worth while. Those who attend either of today's performances will be pleasantly surprised with the excellent acting, the quaint atmosphere and with the choice of plays...
...Christmas, and the holly and misletoe, and the joyous annual exchange of gifts. No human interest like Christmas! Once it did not exist at all in New England! It was necessary to create it. It was created, and it filled the bill. It came in response to a demand of the human heart. There are those who think that a mere universal exchange of gifts most of which nobody wants, is a foolish institution; but the fact remains that our people once did not have it, and deliberately introduced it in its plentitude. They find it somehow well worth while...
Because of the demand for nearly 125.000 tickets, the ticket department, with the approval of the board of control of the Yale Athletic Association, has been compelled not only to return a large number of applications sent by the general public, but to reduce the number of tickets allotted to non-graduates of the various departments of the university...
...University is often--and bitterly--attacked for being the leader of educational reaction in America. There is just enough distorted truth in this charge to demand a refutation. Out accusers must necessarily answer this question: Is there at Harvard a corporate academic conservatism? And no unbiased observer could fail to answer this question in the negative. The root of all these charge lies in a dangerous misconception; It is assumed that because many students are of the conservative class. This is obviously ridiculous. The Status of a certain group of students can neither be caused be nor cause the intellectual...
...summer session, and 4,000 others are studying various branches by correspondence with the college. The freshman class numbers 745, an increase of 104 over the entering class last year. In the School of Natural Science there is a 37 percent, increase, which is directly attributed to the demand for industrial chemists in the manufacturing plants of this country. The School of Mines has a registration that is 30 per cent. greater than ever before. Slight decrease are noted in the Schools of Agriculture and Engineering...