Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their places in a selected profession, it is criminally wrong to let drifters float out unprepared. There is certainly no doubt that there are many such men graduating from Harvard every year, with the stamp of an A.B. after their names. Eventually, some solution must be found for their problem. For now it is the duty of the University to make every effort possible to inspire these men to study by supplying them with stimulating leadership, to realize that the finished product going out of Cambridge is not in many cases adequately trained...
...know quite well that when inflation of the kind and character embodied in the Frazier-Lemke Act is adopted, commodity prices rise but wages stand still. We cannot subscribe to this sort of eco-nomic philosophy. Labor would suffer reduction in living standards, reduced buying power, and the problem of unemployment would become more acute...
Evenly "The Man on Foot" went on: "Is it too much to believe that the human intellect is equal to the problem of designing a world State in which neighbors can live without molestation? . . . Man has become willingly or unwillingly a citizen of the world, and the duties of that citizenship cannot be evaded. It is on you, the young and rising generation of the future, that our civilization depends...
...while at medical school. These all-round doctors learned practical obstetrics mostly by watching Nature take its course with pregnant women. To them childbirth is a welcome commonplace which provides income of $50 to $150 per case. To the average U. S. family it is an economic and emotional problem which occurs two or three times in a life span. To every nubile woman it still evokes the Lord's words to sinful Eve: "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow thou shall bring forth children...
These reports stand on their own merits and are not lightly to be dismissed. But it is permissable to raise some perennial questions which the roseate hue of the reports cannot entirely overcome. First and foremost, of course, comes the large but purely utilitarian problem, is graduate study truly an economic investment? Time was when this admitted only an affirmative answer, with statistical accounting used as corroborative evidence. But today there is considerable skepticism; the chill wind of depression has not swept over college graduates for nothing...