Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week for Democrats (see p. 13). Did those great crowds mean votes - or curiosity? Was Demos what Alexander Hamilton called it, "a great beast," or was it a thinking creature of articulate enthusiasms? Republicans also pondered the Smith ovations, both as campaign phenomena and with reference to a problem of their own. What were Republicans to think of Nominee Hoover's cry of warning against "State socialism" in his New York speech last fortnight? Was that a sincere cry against a genuine danger? Or was it the ecclesiasticism reaches, as everyone knows, from Maine to California, from Mississippi Baptists...
...Holden tradition. In accordance with this scheme, class rushes of a splendidly barbaric simplicity have been converted into tuge-of-war with their reminiscent aroma of Greek culture. At Harvard the case is somewhat more difficult, but the senior class after a year of intimate study of this problem may embody their findings in some appropriate class gift. A suggestion in this matter, pending the decision of the class, is a thick walled glass case for the belfry: though absolutely sound-proof this would enable such legend-loving officials of the University as are known to exist to satisfy themselves...
Yesterday afternoon in response to the presentation of the problem to the Executive Committee by the Student Council, the proposition of vagabonding classes was sanctioned for trial. Vagabonding, auditing, or hoboing classes is not a new idea by any means. Begun at Yale and Harvard several years ago, it has since spread to many of the larger institutions, being the same in principle at most of them, and allowing the student with a vacant hour to attend a lecture outside his own curriculum, providing he takes a seat that is otherwise vacant and creates no disturbance or does not consider...
...chance of election you call a problem in higher mathematics. Norman Thomas will poll a small percentage of votes and he will not be elected; the error in any estimate of the number of his votes is insignificant in its relation to the result desired, knowledge of the outcome of this election...
...game saw the first real chance which George Crawford ocC, has had at directing the team, and while he was in he showed a wise selection or plays which would seem to indicate that at last Coach Horween has found a solution for a perplexing problem...