Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Problem: to transfer gold from the German to the French government through the sole medium of hops...
...light thus brushes speedily across an object or performer and is reflected back upon the third important element of the device-photo-electric cells. The reflected light modifies the electro-magnetic waves passing through the tubes. With light waves rapidly translated into electro-magnetic waves, there remains no problem of sending the electro-magnetic waves through the air. Radio transmission, which changes sound waves (also a part of the machine) into electro-magnetic waves has solved that. The sight & sound despatched at Schenectady last week traveled on wave lengths of 37.8 meters...
...hard to understand why such an actual problem of outstanding legal importance was chosen in the school where the case system was first developed for the teaching of law. The brilliant results that are now predicated with such methods are fully attested by the attention experienced lawyers give a straw trial argued by students in the Harvard Law School. Whatever may be the ever increasing allegations of the impracticality of the colleges, the methods of the graduate schools, and even more, the desire of leading firms to secure the alumni, make such charges against them impossible. And the fact that...
...those having only a very general background of knowledge of the subject. In the sciences it is almost impossible to find such a subject. The comprehension of one lecture requires an exact knowledge of what has come before almost as necessarily as does the solution of a geometric problem...
...upon the professor, is too lenient toward the student. For it is only by mutual cooperation that any definite goal can possibly be attained. If the undergraduate is not willing to free himself to a greater extent from the exacting demands of outside activities and devote himself to "the problem of the inner life", cease to be the specialist and become more the man of leisure, Professor Babbitt's Utopia of Socratic standardization is plainly impossible. He advocates a "classic restraint" as the only solution to the hectic post-romantic ineffectuality of American civilization and appeals to academic circles...