Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON'S treatment of the problem of the Reading period has shown a half-hearted vacillation and has been grossly inadequate. The Lampoon, funsters as they are, have shown far more intelligence. Sincerely WILLIAM LAWRENCE...
Despite enormous progress made of late toward the preservation of a healthy physical condition in the university, some steps remain untried, some barriers intact, some problems unsolved. Harvard has aimed high. In providing for new gymnasiums, swimming pools and compulsory athletics for freshmen the college has advanced far, yet shadowed by such achievement the problem of sugar bowls in the Freshman Dormitories has been sadly neglected. Not only residents but visitors have observed the scarcity of sugar bowls, particularly in Smith Halls, and the vile condition of the remaining minority. The situation has reached a crisis; it demands instant action...
Herein lies the fundamental, the only problem that confronts reformers. The crying need is for new cushions rather than new chapels. However deepseated this evil has become, prompt action may yet recall daily morning worship from the land of the "has beens." Salvation hangs in the balance...
...facts make this possible: 1) Mayor Walker's buffoonery is shrewdly directed; 2) New York, despite its turbulent subway problem, gets along somehow no matter who is mayor or where...
...bonds asserted in its newspaper reproduction of the bond circular that "more than two-thirds" of the German population was Protestant. A prominent Jewish banker who is widely known as one of the first wits of Wall Street calculated the total and remarked at a Bankers Club luncheon: "The problem of German Jewry is solved. We represent minus 3% of the population of the Fatherland...