Word: problem
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...other; they are not identical. It therefore becomes the task of the section man to supply this coordination, and yet discuss the implications of all the course material. This is not possible with men of varying abilities, and especially when each student is himself usually concerned with one particular problem in the work. The solution to this difficulty lies in reducing the size of all Philosophy A and B reducing the size of all Philosophy A and B sections, and in providing at the same time for separation of the average man from the advance...
During the period of the School's sitting, from July 6 to August 16, each week there will come an evening when prominent men and women gather on the lecture platform and wage an informal discussion before the audience on some national problem...
Under a modified tutorial system, with some men dropping out of the system after Sophomore year, the tutors now employed would find themselves with a greatly reduced number of tutees to take care of and their work would be lightened considerably. To answer the financial problem the number of tutors could be reduced under this plan. Further, all professors in every department should be required to take care of a few of the more promising tutees, inasmuch as these older men, theoretically, would make the best tutors and would stimulate students to greater study. This would allow for a further...
...discouraged Committee suggestions of a permanent relief program, declared: "I am convinced that [relief] has little to do with reviving employment as such : that it is a palliative; that it is a necessary thing. ... I think the emphasis and thinking of Congress should be far more on the whole problem of unemployment itself than on the problem of relief...
From Yeats's point of view, Moore was very ignorant: he had read nothing ("I doubt if he had read a play of Shakespeare's even at the end of his life"), had picked up everything he knew from cafe talk in Paris. The problem of style had never occurred to him before he met Yeats; their collaboration was "unmixed misfortune for Moore, it set him upon a pursuit of style that made barren his later years." And Moore misunderstood his talent in other ways. He prided himself on his discerning palate. A tricky friend, dining with...