Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduates who had completed only twelve courses; and to Faculty members who entered the service, it gave the difference between their government pay and their former salaries. Clearly, that generation of Harvard men would have little sympathy with those who now assert, as they view the swelling national demand for a college education, that the University has no responsibility to the nation and can simply look the other...
...after eating the cake in the rabbit's cavern she began to grow nine feet tall. While most Harvard people would correct Alice's grammar, and blame Malthus rather than the cake, the note of incredulity usually remains as they watch the University's policy toward the rapidly rising demand for a Harvard College education...
...roughly 45 per year over the past 80 years shows its ability to continue to do so in the immediate future without damaging its educational standards. The conditions of the past, however, hardly offer a guide for the future. In the past the expansion kept even pace with the demand, and the demand itself was so small that anyone who could pass the entrance tests was almost guaranteed admission. No longer can the University even begin to cope with the demand. Probably no one--in his wildest dreams--thinks that Harvard could admit the several thousand qualified applicants...
...warned that this talk, taken with the recent establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, foretells a deal with Moscow for a neutralized, reunified Germany completely divorced from the West. Although Chancellor Adenauer clearly will not make such a deal, these commentators fear that the so-called "growing demand for reunification" will push a less popular and powerful successor into doing...
...there are elements of the Socialist Party and of the Protestant Church that would be willing to buy a united Germany from Moscow. But in general the western worries are unfounded because they are based on a false interpretation of the "demand for reunification." Reunification is the prime political issue in Germany today, but it is not a popular one. The unity movement is not a swelling of public opinion, but a political device to convince the Western powers of the great German demand for reunification and at the same time to stoke up that very pressure among the Germans...