Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is nothing startlingly new, of course, in this plan. It is an adaptation of Plato's groups of gold and brass and iron men to the needs of a more heterogeneous society than existed in Periclean Athens. But there is a sensible presentation of the modern problem with sensible emphasis on the need for right feeling among representative men. The ideas are not presented with as much persuasiveness as might be wished. Outstanding is the annoying fault of unnecessary repetition of phrases and explanations, as for example the constant definition of mana and miasma, which in the 538 pages...
...present it is the task of filling the stroke and coxswain positions that is Coach Brown's chief problem. These positions were made vacant by the graduation of John Watts '28 and C. H. Pforzheimer '28 last June...
...states which possessed minorities. The Hapsburg Empire disappeared entirely, while Germany and Russia lost large areas on their frontiers and the Turk was all but driven out of Europe. In the peace settlements of 1919 the principle of national self-determination was applied in an imperfect way to the problem of territorial readjustment. In view of the vagueness of national frontiers a settlement of entirely satisfactory character was out of the question. Clearly defined national frontiers could have been established only if the principle of deportation or exchange of populations had been applied. The idea is, in a theoretical...
...anxious to avoid raising the question in a larger way, in order not to compromise the reparations negotiations which are in progress. The Poles, knowing that the Germans would not be willing to have the question become acute, have been pressing for action, in the hope that the whole problem could be definitively settled by some diluted compromise. As between the Germans and the Poles the former are of much greater importance in European politics and the outcome was a foregone conclusion. The question has again been shelved, as Stresemann desired it should...
...following article, dealing with the minorities problem in Europe, was written especially for the Crimson by W. L. Langer '15, assistant professor of History and tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics in the University. This problem has been discussed at the Council meeting at Geneva during the past week...