Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daily exercises are unpleasant requirements, but their abolition would probably increase the difficulty of the course. Some substitute method, however, would be very desirable, even the high school method of holding students responsible for explaining any assigned problem on the blackboard, if that were practicable...
...James H. King, Canada's Minister of Health, last week pondered a compound problem of propriety, tolerance and human rights. The Provincial authorities of British Columbia had laid the problem be- fore him: they proposed that Canada exile or isolate several thousand of Canada's inhabitants upon lonely D'Arcy Island, off the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island...
...power for six years. Now from the Opposition benches rose shouts of "This is your swan song, Bruce!" Perhaps it was. But if he loses the Prime Ministry after the election Mr. Bruce will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that he failed in trying to solve a problem which has baffled every Australian Prime Minister for a quarter-century...
...make Italian liners safer? In Manhattan last week the fact that this problem has just been dealt with by Dictator Benito Mussolini was revealed by a suave, expatriate Roman, Dr. Merigio Serrati, General Manager in the U. S. of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line. Said...
...general rule women do not earn as high salaries as men. Moreover, they look forward to marrying and are reluctant to load a debt on a young husband. A debt makes an unattractive sort of dowry. . . ." Dean Gildersleeve thus touched upon one phase of the scholarship and tuition loan problem which, present at all colleges, is being attacked from a new angle by a big new institution called the Lincoln Scholarship Fund. This Fund started functioning last week in Manhattan. Its campaign: to raise $1,120,000 to lend as tuition fees to "anyone, regardless of age, race, color...