Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HANOVER, New Hampshire, Oct. 27--The problem concerning the censorship of the Daily Dartmouth by the faculty was partially cleared up tonight by the proposal that an impartial board of arbitration be set up to decide on the fate of this newspaper...
Happily, it is not a question of money. The cooperative is determined to be financially self-supporting, and with good management this should be possible. What the University can and should do is provide housing, for with Cambridge, rents what they are, overhead is a particularly knotty problem. The location on a second floor of Church Street should be regarded as temporary, or at least a nucleus; for the co-op should have not only a dining hall and kitchen but common and game rooms as well. This will eventually involve a separate building, or, better, three: one north...
Certainly the problem of deciding what measure of freedom to grant those who would destroy freedom is an exceedingly important issue even in an America well-grounded in the democratic tradition. Even, so the committee could have done the nation a great service, and its failure brings acutely into focus the need for public insistence on a higher standard of morality in political circles...
When President Roosevelt took the trouble to prepare for the press a written castigation of the Senate "Ism" Committee, he did more than add to his long list of shattered precedents: he crystallized for informed public opinion an important problem in governmental practice. Theoretically, the Dies Committee has been investigating un-American activity, and it was given a Senate appropriation for that purpose; actually what has happened is that the United States Senate has been used as a soap box from which to propagate political twaddle...
...this is highly commendable, but the rapidly changing demands of modern life are bringing to light new problems to be solved by the educational world--and Harvard is in the vanguard of those attempting to solve these new problems. For several years the perplexing problem of the relative merits of research versus teaching have been debated at great length, notably during the furore of "crises": like last year's Walsh-Sweezy controversy. President Conant has stated, defended, and enlarged his ideas on the subject, but among students and teachers--of both oratorical and research types--the conflict remains undecided. Second...