Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of History and Literature, however, presents a specialized problem. Only fifty men are admitted to this field every year, and those admitted are supposed to be capable of doing honor work. As a result, over 90% of the students in this Department graduate with honors, and it is only the occasional man who falls by the wayside...
...considering plans for the revision of the tutorial system, University officials must take this special problem into account. The necessity of curtailing the amount of tutorial instruction offered in most of the College fields is undeniable, but History and Literature must not be made to suffer by the faults of other Departments...
...spectators at Princeton contests to abstain from the use of alcoholic liquors while attending these games will no doubt be open to much horrified criticism. It is a delicate subject at best, which college presidents have been too prone to approach from the aspect that "this matter presents no problem for us". Such whistling in the dark, however, seems decidedly off key when one is treated to the spectacle of any college football stadium after the game...
...thorniest problem that the Law School faces is the question of admissions. It is only since the War that the number of applicants has become such as to make the problem acute. There are two methods of dealing with a large number of candidates for admission. The first, used by Harvard, has been to admit every college graduate with a reasonable record, and then at the end of the first year eliminate those who are obviously not qualified to continue...
...Another problem that the Faculty is dealing with is the demand to make the Law School course four years instead of the present three. There has been a wide-spread feeling that with the recent growth of the whole body of law three years is insufficient time to cover it adequately. The addition of another year to the Law course was advocated by Roscoe Pound, who resigned recently as Faculty Dean, in one of his last reports...