Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Demand for tickets to the open nights has been so great that the Observatory has had to schedule double sessions on the two children's nights and has turned away almost 600 people from the first two lectures...
...basic purpose of such an investigation is to provide Congressmen with facts necessary for intelligent legislation. Reluctant witnesses who refuse to testify in closed sessions are charged with contempt of Congress, a delicate legal problem. But with the advent of televised open hearings, the probers demand that a witness not only answer their questions but answer them for the instruction and titillation of every TV owner in the country. There is considerable doubt that a witness can legally be punished for refusing to make a public spectacle of himself on the televised screen. Eventually, this will be a problem...
This informality is highly prized in the classroom as well, where students demand a great proportion of time be held for discussion, while faculty hope to increase independence of assignments and class participation...
Although this incident actually occurred, Smith girls will deny it. Like women everywhere the sometime recluse derides the story that male companionship--Harvard included--is at a premium in Northampton. Although nearby Amherst is well received, statistics at the big dances would seem that they Ivy man is in demand...
...rise and fall of the war scare has been an interesting political phenomenon to Smith but little else. Applications for the Class of 1955 are normal, and the college does not anticipate any faculty changes other than adjustments to demand by students on certain departments. There is, it is haltingly admitted, a slight upswing in the marriage frequency...