Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eugene S. Wilson, Director of Admissions at Amherst outlined six possible answers to the steadily increasing flood of applications from students who "won't take yes for an answer." These ranged from a return to a demand by the colleges for a 1-2-3 preference list from the student, to a clearing house system...
...tour of the House system with McNiff has showed that there is a "maximum practical capacity, in the House libraries beyond which the efficiency of students working is inversely proportional to the number present." The total maximum capacity of the House libraries is below the demand for study-space caused at 10 p.m. by the closing of Lamont, according to figures taken last year...
...last week to one of the muddiest cups yet brewed. The Federal Trade Commission filed a formal complaint against the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange and eight of its members. The charge: restraining coffee trading and thereby causing prices to rise out of all proportion to supply and demand. As it had before (TIME, Aug. 9), FTC hit hard at the exchange's "restrictive" contract, which permits trading only in "Santos 4" coffee, an average grade shipped from Brazil's port of Santos and accounting for 10% of U.S. consumption (2.78 billion Ibs. last year). FTC suggested...
...reasons not merely financial, the new plan seems ill advised. The spirit of piety does not demand that undergraduates be tagged as "Protestants," "Jews," or "Seculars." PBH's religion should be non-denominational, not tri-denominational as Hastie would make...
While hedging his bets with diversification, Sir Eric is still bullish on newsprint. In this generation, says he, "three great areas will open up-South America, India and Southeast Asia and China." In Britain itself, where newsprint is still rationed, Sir Eric thinks that demand would soar from 800,000 tons to 2,500,000 tons a year if the papers were to expand to their prewar size. And he is so enthusiastic about U.S. prospects that last week he announced a third paper machine will be added to the Calhoun plant, making it the biggest newsprint mill...