Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opium Problem Important...
...problem of opium has a direct bearing upon militarism. It is a patent fact that opium growing has become more extensive in the provinces. The country itself which nine years ago was almost rid of opium, is now the scene of a brisk smuggling trade that is protected by the militarists for the sake of the large revenue the opium trade yields. Lack of political unity is easily recognizable in china, tor while the Chinese have a remarkable solidarity, there is nevertheless, no well-articulated national feeling. The imperial government has been a mere figure-head to the far distant...
...fact that a sufficiently large number of cases may be obtained and adapted to college courses is shown by our experience at Harvard. Several years ago we began to gather actual problems from Boston and Cambridge, and later from cities in other parts of the country. A few of the cases were secured from printed documents, . . . but the bulk of them were obtained first-hand from public officials, bureaus of municipal research, and civic organizations. Altogether about 150 cases have been collected. Each of these cases attempts to raise for discussion some fundamental principle of municipal government and each involves...
...world's population is being doubled every sixty years. We have checked immigration, but that is insufficient. Scientific control of birth is the only solution for the problem" declared the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick in an interview yesterday...
...psychology is the determinate factor in what eventually happens to him. Therefore it is probable that the Department of Mental Hygiene, establishing as it does personal contact with and immedate injuiry into the "emotional turmoil" of the student, is the most effective solution to what will always be a problem, whether recognized or not, in any University or College...