Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tunis, who is best known to Harvard readers as the author of "Was College Worth While?" based, he said, on reports from members of the Class of 1911, declares in his article, that the whole problem of getting students boils down to this: "There aren't enough clients to go around, and a wild scramble for students has been the result." The competition between colleges has in fact, Tunis declares, become so intense that prospective students are being bribed, bought, and even kidnapped in order to build enrollments. A case in Indiana is reported where three students were transported...
...story behind that traditional name is soon known to every Harvard man. Reinhardt was apparently a misfit socially, even though he was a plugger academically. Harvard, and with it, Brooks House, has changed since Reinhardt's day and has become more interested in the individual student's problem and how he adjusts himself to the Harvard scene...
Offensively Carr faces his greatest problem at the start. Lettermen T. Newlin Hastings and Robert E. White, both Seniors, report they will be unable to play. Only Thomas Motley '38 stands out in an attacking wall which has given Crimson booters their chief disadvantage for the past two years...
...divorced, first to work for Hearst. He has twice been named in Congressional discussions of aviation scandals. And he has whisked from high-paid job to high-paid job with an ease accountable only by his birth. All of which has earned him a fairly general repute as a "problem child." Certainly Elliott Roosevelt's career is a prime example of a problem which very few men have to face-how to live a normal life when your father is President. Last week, having spent five years trying to solve the problem by working for others, 26-year...
...Southerners are sure that, within the narrow limits they allow, they understand the Negro better than Northerners do. To Northerners the Negro is not a social problem but a minor, hardly noticeable industrial phenomenon. Nevertheless, even dyed-in-the-wool descendants of Lincoln's emancipators sometimes find it a socially embarrassing experience to encounter the emancipated Negro, whether in Harlem or between the covers of a book. Southerners would simply disregard the equalitarian gropings implicit in such novels as These Low Grounds and Their Eyes Were Watching God; Northerners might well find in them some indigestible food for thought...