Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideas are precisely, epigrammatically ordered. There was not a major problem in the whole Nicaraguan question that he dodged or that I even needed to raise. In military matters I found him most assured; a bit flamboyant and boastful and with a tendency to exaggerate his successes. However, he is exceedingly astute, knows the country well, and, with luck breaking even, can remain in the field indefinitely. By keeping the mountainous country north and east at his back, he cannot be cut off by 2,500 marines or 5,000; and he can shuttle back and forth . . . across Nicaragua, enjoying...
...University nine is rapidly assuminb shape. W. W. Lord '28, who in the last two years has already been moved from two positions, appears to have solved the problem of a catcher. J. P. Chase '28, although he has only been out several days, seems to fill the second base berth. As outfield practice will be impossible until the team gets outdoors, Captain H. W. Burns '28 is playing at shortstop...
...face of Dean Hanford's figures and the long recognized problem of the two factors--the real and the "gentleman" student--it may be safely supposed that the next step in education is logically the official recognition of the gap. This conclusion is based upon the hypothesis that every man who takes his studies seriously and spends the requisite amount of time on them should be capable of attaining at least a high C average. If this statement sounds too startling in view of the number of men on probation and those who maintain a precarious low C level...
...solution of the problem lies perhaps in the segregation of the two groups, The scholastic elite deserve and should have the Tutorial System, the General Examinations, the Reading Period, and all that goes with them. They are the men who will ultimately take their degree with Honors, and there is no reason why they should be placed on the same plane with the men who waste their own and their tutor's time, prepare for their General Examinations at a tutoring school, neglect their Reading Period assignments and turn their backs on every attempt on the part of authorities...
...Panama Canal as a Diplomatic Problem," Professor Baxter, Harvard...