Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considerably, however, and the wiles of the bared bigamist in dodging the gendarmes and the bobbies are cleverly contrived. The hero is able to evade the law, but unable to escape from the dilemma of having two lovely wives. Mr. Dietz finally works out an answer to his knotty problem, but modestly discards it, and puts the question up for the audience's solution...
...points to the most serious failing in its labor policy. Harvard feels that so long as its wages are equal to the most liberal wages outside, or a little better, that it is doing its part. Thus the University has no mind of its own on a good labor problem, and accepts the standards set outside regardless of their rightness or wrongness...
...worse than those outside, means that Harvard accepts the present state of industrial relations without question. Herein the University is discovered to be hiding from its right hand what its left hand is doing. Over and over in History, Government, and Economics is taught the importance of the labor problem and the unsatisfactoriness of the present armed truce between labor and capital in this country. It is good that professors debate what wages ought to be paid and how labor ought to be handled; but more effective than the words is the fact, more valuable than the preaching...
...solving the troubles of labor, though this does not mean pell-mell acceptance of the closed shop until labor is prepared for that move. It must recognize that a passive attitude of accepting what other people do is not worthy of Harvard or likely to solve the greatest industrial problem of the present. For example, Harvard should have been one of the first to work out an Old Age Pension Plan instead of being one of the corporations that yielded when the whole country was talking about the inevitability of the scheme. An active, positive attitude towards finding how labor...
Termed by Metcalf "the most important thing that's happened in library work in a long time," the new method will enable Widener to secure copies of books and manuscripts which it would be impossible to buy. Inter-library exchange of valuable works will be facilitated, and the difficult problem of proserving newspapers will be selved by filming them...