Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veritable mass of assorted coaches, undergraduates, and willing alumni. Last year he sent seven scouts to see Harvard play Princeton. At the Dartmouth game last Saturday it was rumored that he had seven spies on the Green and an equal number for the Crimson. That brings up the ticket problem, but we shall save that for another discussion...
...front of the statue of John Harvard; sometimes it innocently squats at a rear doorway. Anyhow, during this first scholastic month, it has been hanging around quite too regularly, thereby shattering the usual official complacency at Harvard's never center. How the horse gets in is a problem which has not been solved, even by the vigilance of Mr. Apted's stalwarts. Some days it just appears, that's all. And nobody knows when it will come again--or why. But officers of the University inside know their Trojan history, and they do not like the beast...
...defense against the Saturday invasions of gridiron teams, so the University must try to out-manoeuvre its opponents, to re-enforce the vulnerable spots, in order that its own progress may be smooth. How this menacing wooden horse is to be out-witted is today the major problem of this institution because the horse represents a composite of all its controversies--both academic and political. It is the purpose of the following editorials to analyze this situation by reviewing its component parts...
...books would be sold if people had more money to buy them, more time to read them. Obvious solutions would be to make books cheaper and shorter. For most publishers either course is close to impossible. For magazine publishers who can buy the right to boil down books, the problem is not so tough...
...industry then sat back to see what E.B. & S. would do. Last week E.B. & S. gave in and announced it would file on December 1 an integration plan, declaring-in direct antithesis to previous statements-that filing was the "realistic approach to a difficult and highly controversial problem...