Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statistics collected by the Institute for Public Service are encouraging in that they indicate a steadily and rapidly growing appreciation of higher education among the American people. The figure are somewhat disquieting; however, to those who notice that if the demand for instruction in colleges and universities increases at the present rate-and nothing as yet indicates the probability of any change in forty years from now either the present facilities for giving higher education will have been increased several hundred times or else enormous numbers of young men and women will apply for entrance only to be turned away...
...last try-outs for the Glee Club to be held this year will take place at 8 o'clock tonight in the Music Building. Students in the Graduate Schools, as well as undergraduates in the College are eligible. There is particular demand for real first tenors, and a man with a true tenor voice is absolutely assured of a permanent place on the club...
This situation does not strike so severely a number of very widely advertised cars whose makers were not unwilling to take advantage of the heavy demand to inflate prices far in excess of any economic justification. Such organizations are now philanthropically paying the way to lower car costs by the simple expedient of knocking off a few hundred dollars worth of frosting, leaving for themselves a cake that would still delight any moderately conscientious business man and still allowing the dear public to pay, for the privilege of purchasing their product, an advertising cost said to run from...
...play will be given in the Copley Theatre in Boston at two performances, the first on Wednesday afternoon, November 24, and the second on Friday afternoon, November 26. If there is as great a demand for admission as last year, the Cercle will probably present it again at one or two performances in the winter...
...steps of Widener last spring will be renewed next May and June, with a larger series, probably followed by community singing. A new addition to its plan will be a series of concerts in the music hall, illustrating some particular phase of choral music. Owning to the great demand for tickets for the Sanders Theatre series and the limited space of Sanders Theatre, the management has moved the series to Symphony Hall, Boston, where the club will sing three concerts...