Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of capital punishment has come up again. Much opinion has been aired, editorially and otherwise, and conclusions have been varied. From lively descriptions of ghostly apparitions in the prison, doctored up with as much sensationalism as possible, to thoughtful attempts to reach an ultimate judgment upon the whole problem by virtue of a particular example newspapers have treated the case from every conceivable aspect. And so the controversy is again aroused, with more than usual intensity this time, as to whether a murderer should pay with his own life. For various humanitarian reasons eight of the forty-eight states...
...Hungary stands officially disarmed by the Allies under the Treaty of Trianon, to which Italy was a signatory. ¶ "B" stood for Bucharest. Thence Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania sped, last week, to Rome. Emerging from a lengthy conversation with // Duce he said: "We thoroughly discussed every single problem interesting our two countries and found a perfect identity of view. This is not an idle phrase. I mean it literally. I think I have said plenty...
...fundamental idea in such a change as this, has to do with getting away from the old "keeping-school" theory of education and with substituting for it, within reasonable bounds, individual self-development. The American college is constantly struggling with the problem of how to get the mass of its students interested. The answer is to put them "on their own." The student that is allowed to choose a special topic that interests him, and to work it out for himself under advice, is bound to become interested. Education then become what the word itself means. Yale Alumni Weekly
...American psychology. As a people, we are very tender of our children's minds. We regard life as a severe practical struggle as a battle of the strong. And we want our children to be strong enough to sustain it before they begin it. The solution of the problem thus presented seems to rest on the development of means to train the very young mind without menace to its health and happiness. In other words the problem is one which we have to work out for ourselves. We cannot borrow the method from Europe, where the conditions peculiar...
...routine of the college proceeded, their relations of friendliness and helpfulness to their pupils would be marred by any thing that resembled closing their doors. It was then suggested that certain periods of the term should be marked off in which instruction of all kinds would cease. The same problem, indeed, arose in regard to all members of the staff. whether engaged in giving courses or in tutoring. With the rising of the quality of instruction one giving of courses has become a more laborious matter than in the past. The students are more keen, more ready to criticize...