Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure, is forbidded to take a course which includes the reading of the Bible, or Shakspere, or the two required authors, if he wants to read them in that way. But the thing which is really offered is exactly the thing for which there has been a persistent demand of late--the opportunity to read independently of courses. And the editorial suggestion that a new course be established, with its tacit assumption that the talk of professors about books is a sine quanon to the intelligent reading of the books themselves, is the strongest evidence possible that the new plan...
...beginning the college was established, not so much from a desire on the part of the Americans to expand their work, as in response to an urgent demand on the part of the people of the country for a college training for their preachers and teachers, primarily...
College Founded Because of Demand...
...voluntary ghetto, to discharge their duties of citizenship in a humble and modest manner, in order to be able to live their own life as Jews. But instead of appreciation for their spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice, they often bring upon themselves misunderstanding and suspicion, Still others demand their full rights as men and insist also upon their full rights as Jews, and when these two come in conflict, they clamor for special privileges. Instead of sympathizing with them for their honest strivings to maintain a difficult position, the world treats them with impatience as a general nuisance...
...dies before reaching eighteen, no money is to be paid; but if, having started, he fails to complete his college course, the balance due is to be paid to a designated third person twenty-five years from the date of the policy. The writer complains that the insurance companies demand a premium high enough to cover five times the risk of a child of one dying before he reaches the age of eighteen. Indeed, one agent told him that the risk was so low that the commission did not pay for the trouble of handing. All the companies consulted denied...