Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Show me a nigger who can do a problem in Euclid or parse a Greek verb," jeered Southern Statesman John C. Calhoun before the Civil War, "and I'll admit he's a human being." Since that challenge the doors of higher learning have swung slowly open to U. S. Negroes. Last week the Julius Rosenwald Fund, making its annual fellowship awards, had no trouble finding Negroes to fulfill the Calhoun specifications for a human being...
Well able to do a problem in Euclid is Fellow Schieffelin Claytor, of Washington, D. C., whose studies on "Locally Planar Continua" have been presented before the American Mathematical Society. Parsing a Greek verb is child's play to Fellow Frank M. Snowden Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., who won honors in Greek and Latin at Harvard, will study further at Harvard and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece...
...problem of the American newspaper today is to open its channels of cordial reception to new social ideals and to insure fair treatment for any reform or any reformer who is obviously honest, reasonably intelligent and backed by any considerable minority of the public. How can this be done? How can the newspapers become open-minded? I don't know. They might try to hire as doorkeepers in the house of the Lord on copy desks and in editorial chairs men who are free to make decisions . . . not controlled by an itch to move to the next higher desk...
...problem of combining four-hour Divisional examinations with a hearty lunch to keep body and soul together is one that caused a great deal of trouble to men in History and Government...
...member of the Student Union Committee on the House problem I interviewed a House master who professed amazement at the passiveness with which the students accept the deplorable lack of facilities. This passiveness can be explained by the satisfaction of most us who were admitted, coupled with the fear the disappointed have that their protests will be labeled "sour grapes...