Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduation of Alex Kevorkian, man-mountain tackle, is not as crucial as at first appears, for Tom Healey, 205-pound baseball pitcher, lacks only experience to become a steady fixture. Spring practice proved that the other tackle position will be no problem with Mose Hallett as a reliable understudy to Ken Booth, who has for three years proved himself as smart and steady a tackle player as exists in the east...
...most significant undergraduate report of last year was made by a Council committee on the question of the basis--relatively between teaching and research--for Faculty promotions. In the same period a committee from the Faculty itself was studying the problem, Thus is it indeed valuable when the administration can have these two approaches to such a problem...
...orientation of incoming students is a very pressing problem for every educational institution. No completely satisfactory method has yet been found to insure that the Freshman receive advice and encouragement adequate for a satisfactory, harmonious, and short period of orientation. The members of the Council will be glad to assist in every possible manner; they will welcome all suggestions, questions, or complaints from the Class of 1942. The President of the Council will keep office hours, 9-10, Monday to Friday, in Phillips Brooks House, and will enjoy meeting members of the Freshman Class...
Because Harvard is dependent and sometimes cool, many of you may be lonely for a while, But the process of orientation is primarily your own problem; to solve it, you must put yourself forward, give equally for what you take. Go to the Union and meet your fellow-classmen; walk about the Yard and learn the names of the various buildings; participate in the functions of Phillips Brooks House...
Scarcely less acute was the wheat problem, for which Secretary Wallace is seeking a partial solution in a subsidy scheme under which he hopes to export 100,000,000 bu., about one-fourth the present U. S. surplus. To dump only 26,000,000 bu. abroad in 1934, the U. S. spent $6,500,000. However ingeniously conceived, a similar program now would not only add a neat expense item to AAA's bulging budget but would almost certainly bring a squawk from Secretary of State Hull, champion of reciprocal trade treaties. In addition, subsidized U. S. wheat would...