Word: demands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exceedingly fortunate in having Dr. Grenfell at Harvard this year in more than one capacity. His arduous labors here during this week and next afford an excellent illustration of the demand that there always is to hear words from a man whose main business is not words, but work. This evening Dr. Grenfell gives an illustrated lecture in the Union on his work among the Labrador fishermen. During all this week he is the regular University preacher; and most important of all perhaps, during this week and next he is to deliver the Noble Lectures in Sanders Theatre. In behalf...
...passed some share of interest in athletics. But other forms of exercise are taking the place of those sports which occurred in the fall, and if not so engrossing are quite as numerous and diverse. It is for a participation in these athletics that there is urgent demand...
Applications from Princeton students for the Yale-Princeton game have greatly exceeded the expected demand. Princeton originally applied for 9,400 tickets, but now a new request for 1,600 more has been received at the Yale office. This amounts to 2500 more than the number of applications two years ago. As a result it is stated at the Yale office that while all applications for three tickets, each for personal use can be filled, probably no tickets can be distributed to the so-called "borrowed applications...
...worthy charitable institutions, and the magazines will be distributed among hospitals, reading-rooms, and charity houses. The text-book loan library, which is supplied with books received in this collection, needs especially those books used in large courses, such as History 1, Government 1, and Economics 1, as the demand for these is the greatest...
...impossible to cope before these people can at least speak the language. Of course the large majority of these foreigners are of a working age, and therefore can not go to the regular schools. The city maintains night schools which are able to meet to a certain degree the demand for instruction in the districts where they are located. Outside of these, however, nine-tenths of all the instruction done last year among the foreigners was in the hands...