Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afraid of. The Union, however, goes on to say, "But unemployment is not the result of the education." Mr. conant might well reply that it is often the result of the wrong kind of education. Can the Union possibly suppose that its own urging ". . . that the fundamental problem be faced . . ." is met by ignoring economic need in the actual situation we must all meet? No serious student of the problem would suggest that the best contribution education can make to the betterment of our economic life is simply to educate more students for longer periods in the same way. That...
...little black book" in which he budgeted his $2 weekly salary as an office boy for Cincinnati Rolling Mill & Tin Plate Co. in 1898. Armco's Mr. Hook also still has the conviction he developed while working up through the steel industry-that the No. 1 Big Business problem is its relations with employes and public. In 1911 Armco's General Superintendent Hook married President George Verity's daughter, Leah...
...unreadable. Instead, its outdoor scenes of fights with Yankees and highwaymen, its pictures of the transformation of well-bred Southern boys to horse thieves and killers, gives The Unvanquished something of the air of Two Little Confederates as it might be rewritten by an author aware of the race problem, economics and Freudian psychology...
Promising an audience of two hundred people, the Harvard Student invited three men prominent in local civic life to address it. These men graciously appeared without any remuneration to address a group interested in the pertinent problem of housing...
...Close of its report (which I am sorry the Crimson did not publish in full) the Union itself grants the advisability of producing intellectuals beyond society's capacity to absorb them. Then where lies the issue? "What we urge," they write, "is that the fundamental problem be faced." What they apparently desire is that Mr. Conant take it upon himself to cure the social system, as well as adapt the University to it: and isn't that a rather large order even for a university president? E. Y. Hartshorne...