Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee "to examine the role of the Faculty in the governance of the University," was tabled. Professor Carl J. Fredric, who proposed this second motion, stated that the committee was not intended to limit the powers of the President but would merely examine the long-range problem...
...which erupted the AIL, the Student Union peace poll, verbal battles in the Crimson over neutrality, and peace meetings by the score. Conscientiously Vag had tried to make up his mind about it all, to decide just what stand he should take. But a solution to the problem seemed to be always just beyond his fingertips...
...into much deeper channels. Many thinkers besides Stephen Leacock have complained that education, is "catting up" life, that repetition and waste study are becoming a farce. Three years, for example, are too often spent on French and German where two, if efficiently taught, would be equally complete. The problem of Plan C goes hand in hand with a thorough inspection of scholastic curriculum. If progress is to be made in college admission requirements, all down the line of high school subjects a serious critical revision is needed to shake off the paralyzing grip of tradition...
From the Administration's point of view it is the "frozen" associate professorships, not administrative democracy or alleged short-run teaching shortages, which is the immediate and pressing problem...
...exhibit at New York's World's Fair, but did not want to wait in line. She asked her husband, Earl Baldwin (Stanley Baldwin), to fix it up. He telephoned the British Consulate; the Consulate called the British Embassy in Washington; the Embassy, faced by a new problem in protocol, cabled the Foreign...