Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision to erect the steel stands ends a problem which has been current for two years since the temporary wooden structures were condemned by the Building Commission. Since then three alternatives have been open to the Athletic authorities, namely: to fill in the open end with concrete stands; to erect temporary steel structures; and to build permanent steel stands...
...report was used by the power interests to support their claim that there is little or no interstate transmission of electricity and therefore no Federal problem, calling for Federal investigation and regulation. The report fitted so happily with the tactics of the power interests that there were queries later as to the origin of the study and the explanation of its peculiar limitations. In a Foreword the report states. "In making this study the Bureau had the complete co-operation of the National Electric Light Association... The costs incurred in conducting the survey were defrayed by the Association...
...addition, President Lowell said that "the problem of education is to stimulate interest in the mind of the youth and thus lead him to make the proper effort voluntarily and not merely to find for him something he likes, which," he continued, "most often is nothing in particular. All education is self-education, excepting that acquired mechanically, and what one gets out of education depends entirely upon the effort put into the acquisition...
...prominent university president decries snap courses, especially if that man be President Lowell. But the metropolitan newspapers thought the information sufficiently alarming to warrant long stories and topcolumn head lines. There is a significance in his words, however, which though lacking in immediate appeal reflects a fundamental American educational problem. It is the fact that President Lowell was talking to school masters and giving them a little of the cool, hard headed advice which has begun to have its effect in institutions of higher learning...
...appetite for intellectual things, making men realize that working hard is worth while." But owing to the many complications arising in our present system, it is not until a man gets to college that anything like this happens, and how often it is then too late. Admittedly the problem of secondary education in America is a hard one. The "tyranny of fashion" which President Lowell points to as so easy under a democracy, is one of these difficulties. The great numbers and the differing abilities of those involved increases the trouble. No wonder that untried theory and visionary experiment find...