Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...achievement of the delegates in bringing a settlement out of the sharp divergences of opinion that preceded the conference, no human agency can forsee the needs of half a century to come, and the most optimistic supporter of the conference can hardly hope that it has closed the problem permanently...
...German stand that is best appreciated by comparing the $8,800,000,000 new decided upon as the total due with the $21,000,000,000 that was fixed at the London conference of 1921. Evidently in their anxiety at seeing their prospects dwindle with every consideration of the problem, the creditor nations are glad to win Germany's consent to a sum greatly below their original hopes rather than have the matter remain any longer in doubt...
...discussion of the report on Vocational Counsel which has recently appeared in the CRIMSON, must be prefaced by the statement that the committee has done an excellent piece of work they have analyzed not only the problem but the method of an attempted solution in an extremely sound manner. Furthermore, they have obtained a clear insight into the needs of undergraduates and have made a penetrating study of the possibilities of meeting those needs...
...this time in Cambridge there lived Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gilman, who desired for their daughter a college education equal to the best Harvard could offer. Having Miss Leach in mind, they took the problem of the education of their daughter and other young women to Professor and Mrs. Greenough in November...
...next problem is, what sort should this guidance be? In the first place, in the opinion of this committee, vocational guidance should aim to be human rather than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never...