Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...District Commissioners hoped by ousting kindly Dr. Smith to frighten her pupils into good behavior, they were sadly disappointed. Immediate consequence was the liveliest riot of the year. First the inmates of the school, armed with knives, sticks, milk bottles and baseball bats, surrounded the main building to demand Dr. Smith's return. Three days later, enraged when the staff got eggs and they got hash for breakfast they revolted again, forced the staff to call police to restore order...
Although the Freshman and Varsity squads will make frequent use of the new facilities, nevertheless, the law students will receive the most benefite, and with 71 squash courts available for the University's use, the huge demand for courts is expected to be taken care of satisfactorily...
...more fundamental importance than these improvements is the promised over-haul in the duration-of loans system. There is an absurd contrast between the demand for books at Widener and the length of time it allows them to be borrowed, a month by a student and an indefinite period by an instructor. Hope is high that this old complaint will be satisfied by an administration which showed this week a truly friendly desire to serve...
...present such opportunities appear almost unlimited when it is considered that pictures of all kinds are in incressing demand by the paper, from formal portraits to candid shots of the student falling down Widener steps...
...long as they desire, subject only to an annual spring check-up by the Library, are holding books longer than they have any right to them. Although it appears beyond reasonable doubt that most professors lean over backward to return books promptly for which there has been any demand, it is nevertheless true that some instructors in the University have built up tremendous aggregations of library books in their own private quarters, and that they frown on any attempt of undergraduates to wrest away these treasures...