Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from 50,000 to 120,000, in the last five months. Direct relief rolls have also bulged, but here the difficulty was aggravated because Ohio's State Legislature, due to assemble in special session next week, squabbled last winter over relief funds, adjourned without solving the problem. Chicago's Relief Administration, which gets its funds from a city real-estate tax and the State Relief Commission, had spent its entire 1938 allowance from the city $5,404,000, by May 1 and no more State funds were due till June 1. Last week, Illinois Governor Henry Horner called...
...suggestions for future work in the President's report make it clear that the Council has left much undone that it can well do next year. The problem of both Freshman and Senior elections it still unsolved, and from the present sentiment of the Council it can be deduced that certain parts of these may need to be abolished. This brings us to its general attitude. Certainly, the Council has no swords to draw with University Hall, for Dean Hanford has been the acme of cooperation. Certainly, also, because of Harvard's Jaissez-faire attitude toward the student, it would...
...Throughout the year the Council was criticized by groups of undergraduates for the methods of nomination and election administered by the Council under its constitution. While certain of the suggestions placed before the Council seem to me quite impractical, there can be no question that the whole problem of election in the College should be studied by a Council Committee and I suggest that the Council of 1938-1939 begin the year by appointing a Committee to study the question exhaustively...
...Quentin Roosevelt, William H. Heinton, Eugene H. Nickerson, James J. Pattee Jr., and Spencer Klaw. Also present at the meeting were William E. Clark '08 Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Master of Kirkland House, and Richard B. Finn '39, Chairman of the B. S. U. committee on the House problem...
Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, last night emphasized the newness of the problem. "I've watched it grow; only a few years ago we had difficulty filling the Houses...