Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nine-tenths of the Hungarian people, including, myself, would gladly welcome the return to a monarchy. Budapest would receive our exiled Queen and Prince Otto as our King with enthusiasm, but the big European powers object to this natural and rational solution of the simple dynastic problem...
...junior high school through college, the proposal advocates the discarding of several preparatory courses. A narrower, more limited field of study in the training school is Mr. Holmes's judgement. This is certainly the reverse of a liberal education. In fact it is no direct release from the musty problem of unity between preparatory school and college. Mr. Holmes destroys his own plan when he expresses the college's lack of confidence in elementary training by requiring the freshman to study English composition, a course which has been demanded of him from the day he learned to read...
...instructors. That is the place for American educational reform as long as it must be discussed. Why doesn't Mr. Holmes bemoan the existing practice of allowing ordinary normal school graduates to guide the child in the early formative years of his life? Why does it cry that the problem lies in the students' race for graduation units, when that is an extremely minor issue? Why should a child, who would rather be playing ball than attending class, be faced with the serious problem of selecting his vocation or field of concentration? The proposition is sufficiently gross in his riper...
...chief problem that faces Major J. B. Wogan the coach at present is the question of ponies...
...first ascent of Mt. Dais. The day was bad and the climbers found themselves in a veritable blizzard when they neared the peak. The ridge leading to the summit was completeley covered with fresh snow and the vertical southern face, hidden in clouds and snow, presented a mountaineering problem of the first order, making the climbing extremely dangerous. Further later stated that the hours spent in feeling their way along this knife ridge, and across the face of the peak, with eyes and hands frozen, were the most exciting of the whole two months...