Word: demands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...need for more extensive work by Harvard instructors has been partly met by the Afternoon Saturday Courses for Teachers and partly by the Lowell Institute Courses. The increasing demand, however, for these courses and for some degree led to the appointment of a committee to investigate. As a result of the recommendations in their report to the effect that co-operation was needed between the institutions of learning in and about Boston and that more extensive work could not be undertaken by the University alone, a commission was organized composed of the following institutions: Harvard University, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute...
...there was yesterday any question as to the merits of the new Senior dormitory system, there is none today. All that was claimed for it has been clearly vindicated by the unprecedented demand for rooms in the Yard. Last year, including both first and second assignments, there were 138 successful applicants. In yesterday's allotment 120 men secured rooms, and there were besides these 110 men whose applications failed. In other words, there are almost enough applicants left over to fill the three entries of Thayer. All that remains to be said, is that with some slight improvements Thayer will...
...upon the members of the Rules Committee since the end of the last season that we consider it quite unnecessary to make public now any new ideas for the reform of football. One tangible fact may be gleaned from all that has been written on the subject,--that the demand for change is general and insistent. The Rules Committee is an exceptionally competent body, and may safely be trusted to legislate only for the lasting good of the game...
...occurs, however, that a man stays in Cambridge expressly to use the Library, and finds when he goes there that all the books on a given subject have been taken out over Sunday. Many courses have reports due on Monday or Tuesday, so that the books are in great demand on Sunday, and this applies especially during the examination period. Moreover, a great many books are taken home and returned Monday morning without having been opened, while those in demand in the Library are sure to be used diligently. It seems, then, that if the reserved books are allowed...
...between fair and unfair work becomes exceedingly vague, because without copying a report a man may write his own on the basis of another's work, without doing it himself. Much criticism is now being heard concerning the quantity of theses which must be written, but these, at least, demand a certain amount of protracted thought, which is far more than can be said of the reports...