Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This morning's announcement by the Ivy A.A. directors demonstrates how vitally necessary is some solution to the problem which the new-defunct League sought to solve. The very excuses which destroyed the naively amateurish hopes of the undergraduates who proposed the League prove that some such plan must be developed if Harvard is to continue to play football on its present basis...
Already the star has given one or two preliminary "pops", and observers believe that this is significant of further developments. The installation of the new 200-inch telescope at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California is expected to help crack this problem as well as that of what lies beyond the edge of the universe. It is thought that the nebulae which can be perceived through present telescopes are embryonic solar systems...
...Another problem is that of flakes of fire on the sun, which last only three minutes but which are 2000 miles in diameter. These have been discovered with infra-red photography which has also enabled observers to see the "red nebulae" and the Roman candles shooting out from the sun which were pictured for the first time...
President Conant did well not to become involved during the muddy battle itself, particularly under the stipulations of Governor La Follette's invitation. His reply, emphasizing the difference between a professor and a president, pointing significantly to the essential problem of respect and independence, struck the heart of the whole problem. As President Conant said, "The question before the educational world and the people of your state is whether they have confidence in the Board of Regents...
...problem seems to me to be whether or not this present Board of Regents has the capacity, competence and independence to make a judgment free from prejudice of a political or personal nature. The question before the board of whether they have confidence in the president; the question before the educational world and the people of your State is whether they have confidence in the Board of Regents...