Word: coping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other reason for the old major sport situation has not yet been entirely removed, nor is it as easy to cope with as the first. It is none other than that old bogy, the apathy of many college men toward athletics, and a non-realization of the real and permanent good to be obtained from any form of physical sport steadily pursued. The situation in this regard is much better than formerly, but there is still much room for further improvement. That by far the greatest interest in sports is taken this year by Freshmen is a good sign...
...means easy to keep our instruction in the chemical courses in colleges and universities up to their full standard, because of the pressing necessities of the times. There is today a special demand for organic chemists. But we are all doing our best to cope with the situation...
...counsel of local administrators, the central head has wildly adopted this scheme. Suddenness intensifies the radicalism or the more, made, apparently, in a desperate attempt to wipe out the ever-increasing fuel difficulties. Though an effort to remedy a grievous situation, it is rather a confession of inability to cope with the problem by other means. Because the Government regulator has failed to arrange a satisfactory coal schedule he must now upset business. In haste and by sensational means, he tries to bring about in a short while what he has been unable to accomplish in several months. Instead...
...apparent as it is now, the great value of a system of universal military training is brought home with great emphasis. If this country had introduced such a system ten years ago the Government would not be confronted with a situation it is totally unprepared to cope with. Enough men would be under arms now to form the first increment and the other classes of semi-trained men could be called as additional forces were needed. However, the opportunities of the past have been lost forever, and the present problem must be solved by present means...
Professor Taussig and his colleagues have a difficult problem ahead of them: to cope with commercial conditions which have not been paralleled in the history of the world. They will have the heavy responsibility of advising Congress not only in war times, but in the great reconstruction period afterwards, in adjusting our national tariff, dealing with the new foreign tariffs, and framing new treaties for the expansion of trade. In addition to keenness of judgment and a broad range of experience, they must possess unfailing resourcefulness in tackling situations which will have no precedent...