Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON's two previous editorials on expansion have stated, we think that the University does have some responsibility to the nation in dealing with the educational demand and that Harvard should try to expand itself numerically. The University must, nevertheless, attach some very specific strings to any such plans. It is in virtually ignoring any such qualifications that the Overseers present a misleading picture...
...succession arose) he would have, been bound to give Princess Margaret the opposite advice. The Premier's own marriage, according to the Archbishop's doctrine, is not a true marriage. No wonder that the upshot of the whole affair in Parliament and the country is a demand for Disestablishment...
...coverage, has gained circulation from Washington to the Deep South. The new plant, linked by Electro-Typesetter circuits to editorial offices in Manhattan, will be strategically located to serve this burgeoning market. In addition, it will relieve overstrained Manhattan presses, giving the Journal the mechanical capacity to meet a demand that has steadily pushed its national circulation ahead of any other U.S. daily and is still growing at the rate of nearly 20% a year...
Radical Innovation. Tunghai will consciously avoid imitating the mainland colleges in its educational program. The political realities of modern Asia, President Tseng believes, demand an education that is both broader and more practical than that offered in the traditional Chinese university system. Tunghai students will get heavy doses of history, the classics, the social sciences. They will also be required to do some nonacademic labor (a radical innovation in the Orient, where intellectuals have traditionally regarded manual labor as degrading). Since Tunghai is located in rich farming land, the university may eventually establish a student farm that will supply...
...country is solely a numerical one. It is not necessarily true that Harvard, as the number of college applicants skyrockets in the coming decades, should try to keep up with the trend by admitting more students each year--just as the Ford Motor Company, reacting to an increased demand for automobiles, might add another assembly line. Education is not that kind of process. The University has won its position of leadership not through the number of men it has graduated--many institutions have turned out more--but through the excellence of its teaching and educational policies. Harvard's responsibility...