Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue in the coal strike beginning at midnight tonight is chiefly one of wages. The workers demand an increase of 20 percent for contract labor while the operators want a change in the other direction. Each party has stood firmly by its original position, but for two reasons the great responsibility for the strike seems to go to the operators. They have refused to meet the United Mine Workers in a conference, as contracted for in their present wage agreement, and they have obtained and injunction against the Federal Trade Commission restraining it form investigation...
Today the negotiations with Mexico reach a conclusive stage. Indications point to the acceptance by the Mexican Congress of President Harding's demand for guarantees, which will remove the last material barrier in the way of our recognition of President Obregon's government. It is hard for Americans to appreciate any Mexican Government, Mexico City itself is a capital as beautiful and civilized as any in the world. General Obregon is an educated, cultivated man of the world, of considerable ability. He is doing his best to establish a firm, united government. As he remarked jokingly to a delegation...
...danger of playing intersectional games we have already commented at some length. The time would undoubtedly come when, if we were to play some middle-western college for a period of years, the demand on the part of our own alumni, of the alumni of our opponent, and of the public in general, would be so great as to cause our team to play at that college instead of in Cambridge. Not to want to play games away from home may appear snobbish, but the danger of having the football team sent around the country as an advertisement...
...they will have to face until they are settled, is that arising from the amazing growth since the war of a desire for education," said President W. A. Neilson '96 of Smith College, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON on modern education methods in this country. This increasing demand, according to him, is more evident in the West than in the East. The attendance a several of our Western State Universities is advancing at the rate of 2000 students a year. At one of them a single class of 1500 in English literature is held in a open...
President Nailson went on to deplore the fact that here professors and instruction tend to think of their studies mainly in terms of their own specialized department of field. "If we are to meet the growing demand for education, it is essential that teachers come to feel themselves part of a great educational machine whose aim is to give the greatest possible number of living contacts with the world to each and every student...