Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...develop a lighting force. Since the University offered no courses along these lines, the force has been compelled to rely on the Boston Art School for the training. At present, more worthwhile plays are written each year than the "Workshop" can present. There is further, a growing demand for both summer and winter courses in play-producing...
...would seem, therefore, that there is sufficient demand to warrant the establishment of a school of the Dramatic Arts here at Harvard, with an adequate theatre and proper equipment. The "Workshop" represents, at present, as well-trained and carefully selected a group of experimenters in the theatrical arts as any in the country. The work being done here is commanding mere and more the attention of the whole country. It is essential that suitable means be placed at the Workshop's disposal at once, If it is fulfill the promise which it so abundantly shows...
...recognize by the present attitude of the executive in this matter that American apprehensions are not without justification. It is curious that it should be left to the American Legislature to give the British Parliament a lesson on its own Constitution by insisting on full Parliamentary control. "The demand for the recognition of Parliament in the mandate question is in complete accordance with the traditions of British government, bought at the cost of countless lives and centuries of struggle...
William H. Geer, Director of Physical Education, said Tuesday of the purpose of these courses, "The demand for competent teachers, supervisors, and directors in schools and colleges far exceeds the supply, and this is especially true in the case of men qualified in the coaching and conduct of athletics...
...institutions can afford to maintain. The youth in quest of higher education is supposed to have outgrown his preparatory-school days; in entering the large university he finds himself in a man's college. He finds large classes there because the professor of high intellectual capacity is in great demand. He gains from the instruction offered him just so much as he thinks worth while. The large university has never claimed to train scholars as schoolboys are taught. It makes no pretensions now to teach its students in spite of themselves. It leaves to the individual undergraduate the free play...