Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commuter Problem...
...drawing up their report, the work of this committee consisted of: (1) Ruling on various details pertaining to policy; (2) Appointing managers for all sports; (3) Admitting Dudley Hall as a member of House leagues in place of the former Brooks House; (4) Investigating from all angles the problem of Dudley Hall athletics; (5) Drawing up tentative "Rules and Regulations of the Inter-House Athletic Committee...
...position in her recent suit to get custody of her daughter (TIME, Aug. 17 & 24). Meanwhile Fate had brought Mary Astor the greatest picture, the most human and sympathy-winning role of her life just when she needed it most. Dodsworth, a forthright investigation of a universal problem, tells the story of a man battling to save his marriage from his wife's desire to keep young by cutting amorous capers. Sam sold his Revelation Motor Co. because Fran (Ruth Chatterton) wanted to go abroad and have some fun. Fun's first embodiment, a handsome shipmate, sharpened...
...each of last week's meetings Missionary Jones set the themes which probably half a million Protestants will hear before Christmas. Samples: ''The gospel will solve every human problem. . . . The Kingdom of God is for all of Man. . . . The Kingdom of God as Jesus described it is founded directly on good will and brotherhood-life as it ought to be. . . . Poverty is not the will of the God who intended the earth to be beautiful. We could banish poverty tomorrow if this thing of the Kingdom of God were taken seriously by Christians. We have the technique...
These changes are only another manifestation of the Harvard spirit. As everybody knows, the colossal changes, brought about chiefly by science in the nineteenth century, shook the very foundations of society. Therefore Harvard's problem, at least in part, has had to be one of fitting in with a changing world. Some of these changes are rather amusing. Take the Harvard College Law of 1655, for example: "Every scholler, everywhere shall weare modest and sober habit, without strange, rufflan-like or newfangled fashions; . . . neither shall it be Lawfull for any to weare Long Hair Locks or foretopps...