Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON has generally refrained from commenting on routine administrative policies in the graduate schools. But the recent action of Dean Pound seems to involve an issue, whose significance is not confined to the Law School. It raises a problem, which is common to all departments of the University, as to the relation between Faculty and students...
THIS is a frank treatment of the Jew-problem from the point of view of the modern Jew contributed by Rabbi Wise's son to the "Today and Tomorrow Series...
...ascribes it not to religion, nor to surface racial characteristics, but to an innate emotional feeling present from the beginning in the Jew, strengthened and intensified by centuries of persecution during the Middle Ages. This feeling is expressed in that strong group Jewish clannishness which makes Israel a problem...
...expected that any present day treatment of the Jew would lay emphasis on the quite secondary but popular problems of religion and of Palestine. Mr. Wise's attitude toward the former is an assumption that as theological faith it will disappear along with theological Christianity. Of Palestine, while enthusing over its possibilities as an experimental station for Jewish ideals, the author admits that it cannot solve the Jewish problem as such...
...thought. The future then lies in the sane recognition of the marked difference between Jew and Gentile, and the mutual benefits which ultimately arise from it. As Mr. Wise concludes, "For if once it be accepted as a fact that the Jewish group, the Jewish people, even the Jewish problem, is not to disappear but is to go on as a distinctive part of the composite life of the world, there may come into and through the life of Israel much that will be of value both to itself and to all mankind...