Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Problem Involved...
Besides this immediate necessity, Harvard seems to have much the same problem as the other eastern universities, most of which like Yale and Dartmouth, have flourishing personnel departments. It may be argued that Harvard, because, of its location, or some tradition of individualism, has less need of vocational guidance. This point of view, however, seems a confusion of the question, in that more opportunities for placement are not sufficient to guide undecided Seniors in choosing a place. The problem, in other words, is bigger than local differences and is apparently becoming more pressing in proportion as the opportunities open...
Although the fight for stroke is the dominant problem at present, there are several possibilities for changes in the waist of the crew, but most of these must await the outcome of the stroking situation before they can be settled. Several changes were made yesterday including the tryout of E. I. Millard '31, a member of the class crew squad, at No. 6 in the Jayvees. None of the present shifts can be regarded as permanent for the first and second crews may present a far different aspect on the Thames from the one now seen on the Charles...
...present conference was called at a time when international affairs were pressing for solution, but when there was no single problem which was foremost. The meetings in 1924 took place at a time when Europe faced with anxiety a future made dark by unbalanced budgets and disordered currencies, when the dangers were known, and the end results of keeping on as they were going threatened disaster to several European nations, if not to all of them. To be sure, no one expected of that conference anything so successful as the Dawes Plan. But everyone was aware that nothing short...
Back in the dull, depressed days of 1921 President Warren Gamaliel Harding appointed a committee to look into the matter of unemployment, to make a report upon this then burning question. When last week the Unemployment Committee announced its findings, neither President Harding nor unemployment remained a U. S. problem. It was primarily a Hoover Committee that made the report (President Hoover was Committee Chairman while Secretary of Commerce) and prosperity, not unemployment, was the burden of its story. Called upon to view with alarm, the Committee concluded by pointing with pride...