Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exclusive interest to the graduates. The Corporation can now face the question squarely, as Mr. Withington put it last night: Is football primarily a game for the undergraduates to play, or a spectacle for loyal, returning alumni to enjoy? Underlying all the arguments was that question, the old problem of the proper relation of football to the life of the University. With the settling of the Stadium question, Harvard's position on that more important issue will be made clear...
...furnishing rights of way, was scrapped in February by the House Committee on Flood Control and replaced by an expansive $473,000,000 program, to be borne entirely by the U. S. This measure President Coolidge promised to veto. Senator Jones of Washington then tried his hand at the problem and last fortnight introduced a $325,000,000 measure retaining the local-payment principle insisted on by President Coolidge but actually costing the States only some $12,000,000. Since this bill did not affect tributaries of the Mississippi, many a Congressman, especially Arkansans, at once attacked it. Debates...
When animals were first studied by the psychologists, their behavior was interpreted anthropomorphically. The knowledge of human psychology was thrown into reverse and the animals were credited with consciousness, introspective, free will, after the German school led by Wilhelm Max Wundt. First to throw brilliant new light on the problem was Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Son of a priest in a Russian village, he was early confronted with Spirit & Mind v. Matter. Long years in scientific study got him a doctor's degree at the age of 34. Six years later, 1890, he was appointed director of the physiology department...
...Moore hinted that he might make of the Mirror and Advertiser a buckle for a nation-wide chain of tabloids. When asked about contemplated negotiations, he said: "You don't have to negotiate. They are offered to you." Concerning the most important problem of a tabloid publisher, Mr. Moore weaseled his stand: "We do not make the news. If it happens to be sensational we will not eliminate it on that account. But I want to make a distinction between sensationalism and salaciousness. We will not tolerate the latter...
Considered from the viewpoint of the individual, another problem has arisen. As the numbers have increased, it has become proportionately more difficult for the underclassman to achieve that distinction which the Yale social system seems to demand. In order to make friends and become a worthy member of society, the feeling is that one must have "made" some team or competition. As a result, the ambitious tend to dissipate their energies in activities of little lasting value in order to acquire temporary recognition. Outside the circle of "big men" are those of quiet worth who have time for the pursuit...