Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when it was discovered that their 16-ton concrete floor was 18 inches too near the roof to permit a sounding board to be fitted in. Raising the roof would be costly. Lowering the floor on screw jacks would involve getting the jacks out from underneath. They solved their problem with ice and sunshine. Jacking the floor up two feet, they shoved in 50-pound cakes of ice, removed the jacks .and old floor supports. Before the ice melted, new supports, 18 inches shorter than the original ones, were in place...
...trying to do in its way, it is obvious that we are here observing a general tendency to get away from "teaching" in the mass and towards specialized development of the individual. It is along this path, we think, that there will come the solution of the college educational problem that of late years has become so urgent a question. The graduate who looks back on his college days and who feels that the mass education of his day did not land him personally anywhere and who regrets that he did not have the chance to develop this or that...
...Chinese, as well as other foreigners, see in American films the many facilities that make our life more pleasant, and perhaps easier; and it creates in them a certain restless feeling. This causes them to want to be free, and I believe, has some influence on our immigration problem...
However, one can easily see unlimited possibilities for the Initiate from other parts of the country. Take for instance a minor problem such as education...
Automobiles had become a troublesome problem in Princeton, as elsewhere. Five undergraduate deaths, the poor scholastic standing of 200 student automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss...