Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem is no longer that of finding the Human Magnet but rather of cultivating a wilful pliability to Suggestion in the population. This may turn out to be an insurmountable difficulty for New Englanders who are proverbially negativistic and resistant to any outer voice, whether it be the Good, the True, or the Beautiful...
Such a memorial should receive unanimous and enthusiastic support. Whatever its fate, however, the very pressing problem of the chapel must be met by the administration before the flight of time sullies Harvard's recognition of her dead and destroys the meaning of their sacrifice...
...decades the one essential problem of the American college has been to induce its students to take their college work seriously. These students are not children. They are no younger than men who led the advance through the Argonne and other men who took their ships round the Horn. If they can be made to appreciate the importance of intellectual training they will take it seriously enough. The only way to make young men feel the importance is to accept and act upon the principle that they are partners, and the more important partners, in the educational endeavor. This...
...Bingham's report, while it record progress and promises further development, leaves much unsaid which must be said sooner or later. It does not quite penetrate to the fundamentals of the athletic problem. Because it comes from the man upon whom Harvard has rightly staked the solution of that problem it is disappointing judged by any other standard than that of a somewhat over cautions step by step advance...
...Problem of Interstimulation and the So-called Group Mind", Professor Carver, Sever 17, Economics...