Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lecture Hall at 2 o'clock. Although Harvard will uphold the negative side of the question in the debate, candidates for the team will prepare a five minute speech on either side of the question so that they will be acquainted more thoroughly with the various phases of the problem...
...Anthropology, Economics, Human Geography, Political Science, Law, Phychology, Sociology, and History. Fourteen universities, from coast to coast, are represented by the Fellows selected, and the latter will gather their material from all parts of the globe. A geographer will study rural communities in Japan: an anthropologist will investigate the problem of adolescent and child psychology in A South Sea island another the adjustment of Individuals to society in a Pueblo village, a third anthropologist the background of Chicago immigrants in Steily: a political scientist will study the problem of contemporary political leadership in the light of psychiatry and psychology...
...problem of the negro of America home at Harlem has been periodically attended to. The floods brought attention to the levee negro. But Catfish Row is likewise Africa in America. The attention drawn by the Liberal Club to a worthy drama has involved a too-familiar identification of the name of Harvard with the lighted overhangs of Tremont and Boylston Street; yet the identification seems this time not unjustified...
...appears that the Columbia Law Faculty has been studying this problem since 1921 and believes that it has discovered a means of detecting in advance men who are incapable of complying with required standards. Experiment by means of a "capacity test" has consistently revealed that over ninety percent of the men who scored below a certain grade did poor work in law school. Consequently it is felt that the "capacity test" is a reliable means of presaging a man's capability for law school work and-it will go into effect at Columbia next fall...
...waste a year of their lives is not only unfortunate for them but their presence in the school seriously interferes with the work of the more capable students. If the "capacity test" can reduce the enormous percentage of failures at Columbia it will have solved a major problem of the leading law schools. Besides, the providing of better educational opportunities for the good men is an outstanding movement in academic institutions throughout the country. The "capacity test" of the Columbia Law School, in this respect, is just an extension of the "psychological test" administered by Columbia University to entrants...