Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After hearing the report and recommendations of the committee investigating the House admission situation, the Harvard Student Union last night passed a resolution to the effect that the committee should continue its work, and until a more complete solution to the problem be found it recommended a plan of associate membership for those who are not admitted to Houses...
...Committee quoted figures and outlined the situation as it is at the present time. The report stressed the fact that the University's policy as to the size of the Freshman Class is not certain at the present time. Although a new House would solve the problem if the present college enrollment stays the same, the committee recommended the associate membership plan as a tentative alternative...
...Gunnar Myrdal concludes the series of Godkin lectures on "The Population Problem and Social Policy" with his second talk on "Remedial Means" at the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
Compared with this long-run problem is the problem of the effect upon the business cycle of taxation aimed at reducing the amount of savings. The pamphlet contains a very careful analysis of the effects on all aspects of the economic life of the country of the Capital Gains Tax, the Undistributed Surplus Tax, and the Social Security Tax. The conclusion is that though these taxes are in part designed to curb over-saving they reduce savings in a year only between one-half and three-quarters billions of dollars. What relation is there between these taxes and the current...
...Student Council is to be complimented for its original penetration into the budgetary set-up, which activity supplements the recent report on the promotions problem, the University is at the same time open to justifiable indictment for permitting the existence of one-sided academic scales. Its first move should be to pour enough gold onto the other side of the scales for a perfect balance. Evenness of distribution of funds based upon the number of concentrators in each field is obviously the only way in which Harvard can guarantee full teaching in departments now over-crowded. In another quarter century...