Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aviators a Problem...
...problem of the adventurer is very much akin to this problem of the artisan. One of the greatest questions confronting the deans of Harvard Yale, and Princeton is that of undergraduate-aviators. At Princeton, the students are no longer allowed to have airplanes. At Yale and Harvard, undergraduate flying clubs flourish under very lukewarm official approval. In both communities, the clubs have become exceedingly popular. Their members are adroit and expert aviators, but, for the most part, lamentable scholars. The academic mortality of members of the flying clubs far outruns that of the pedestrian students; and naturally enough...
Freshmen coxswains will gather with their classmates, and especially good opportunities are open to them, as shortage of steersmen has been a perplexing problem in recent years...
Toronto, Canada, Sept. 23, 1929. The problem of crime in the United States is much more far reaching than even penologists have dreamed, according to a statement issued here yesterday by Sheldon Glueck of the faculty of the University law school...
Widespread crime, he said, is due to the transformation that contemporary civilization is undergoing, and the solution of the problem seems to lie in the closer study of social pathology...