Word: demands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...teaching and the small college (within the university) doing much for youth on the cultural and social sides. Like Princeton, following the lead set by Woodrow Wilson, Harvard that of A. Lawrence Lowell, and Amherst that of Alexander Meiklejohn, Yale is beginning to react favorably on the popular demand that in some way culture, scholarship and intellectuality be restored to a dominant place in the American national academic ideal, from which it has been ousted by athletics, fraternity excesses and premature specialization in order to get a living promptly after graduation...
This production will be in the nature of an experiment for the Workshop company. Outside performances by the Workshop have been greatly in demand...
...part, through the University, the statistics given out by the Secretary for Student Employment are decidedly encouraging. The office undertakes to recommend University students and graduates as tutors, and for such temporary or part time work as is available. It also endeavors, as far as possible, to increase the demand for this work. In comparison with 1912-13 the figures show a decrease of 43 men employed, but an increase of $14,690.97 in the amount earned. Twenty positions, bringing in approximately $3,300 were filled through the co-operation of the recently organized Appointment Office of the Harvard Club...
...years, but all other branches of the collection exceeded the record set by last year's donations. The collection of books and magazines was 200 pounds greater, and the clothing collection larger by 200 pieces than last year's figures, increases which are particularly gratifying because of the greater demand this year for these articles. The assortment of the collection showed such items as follows: 75 full suits of clothes, 12 overcoats, 150 shirts, 125 pairs of shoes, 48 hats, 800 pieces of wearing apparel such as ties, socks, vests, collars, and pajamas, about 910 pounds of magazines...
...season football practice at Yale brought to light an abundance of exceptionally good material. Coach Hinkey had veteran backfield men and promising players from the previous year's freshman team from which to develop the attacking element of his offensive machine. The line seemed to demand the greater attention inasmuch as it had been seriously weakened by the loss through graduation of several of its veterans, but numerous substitutes and men from 1917 who were eligible for the first time gave every appearance of being able to keep the standard of the forward defence up to that which has existed...