Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...because of the size of the room and the number of empty chairs. Granted that famous men are scarce, may the subject chosen be made broader? And, when an expert does give a talk on a highly specialized topic it would be infinitely more courteous to him to confront him with a crowded Trophy Room or to utilize the Writing Room where the audience could sit irregularly about the speaker or even "lounge" about the room and avoid the feeling of formal emptiness prevalent in a half-filled Living Room. The meeting would be less frigid, more lively, more pleasant...
...realize that a subject must have certain definite qualifications to be suitable for discussion in the Forum. But the indefinite postponement of the meeting of the Forum because there was no topic for discussion is a striking commentary on the unruffled felicity of our undergraduate life. No problems confront us, no subjects need thrashing out. Requiescat in pace...
...better suited to country life than he is to the conditions which surround him in the large cities, both southern and northern. For this reason, Tuskegee has always devoted itself especially to the training of farmers. At the commencement exercises, addresses are always given on practical problems which confront the negro population of the surrounding districts. But for the help of the better elements of white population the negro race could never have made the wonderful progress it has in the fifty years of its existence in freedom. The feeling between the races is constantly improving as the negro becomes...
Perhaps the uniting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in an effort to educate men to attack understandingly the health problems which confront the modern urban district may seem to be a more enlargement of the scope of a university training; but to the CRIMSON, as to those who announced the union during the summer, it seems indeed "history-making." Students of municipal government have long seen the waste and ignorance that too often prevail in the departments of city management; while, at the same time, students of engineering and medicine have realized that neither of these...
...away with the right to incorporate, you must restore the competition of the old days, but nobody thinks that possible and very few think it is desirable. The correct policy to pursue is to put competition under reasonable regulation. The question which confronts the United States today is merely this: shall we try to work back towards perfect competition, or shall we accept the other alternative and regulate competition and confront the problem of fixing prices for all the most important commodities in the same manner as railroad rates, gas rates, and the like...