Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure you give the impression that every difficult problem is being dealt with with far less sense and ability than could be done by you, who can have few of the facts, none of the experience nor understanding of the immense variety of cross difficulties encountered...
...chief problem of university administration is to attempt to hold the balance between teaching and research...
...company of this sort, with economic considerations always in the foreground, necessarily there must be the problem of what precisely it wants to accomplish. Whether grace is their goal, or technique, or a compromise, still the goal must be decide upon. One has the feeling that the Hollywood Ballet has not yet settled this question. That is until their final number, "Hollywood", is given. Then one sees that what they really aim for is such a goal as this. With Ferde Grofe's solidly written music as a background, this dance, a satire on motion pictures, is something that...
...paragon of scholastic ability and enthusiasm, Harvard College and her Tutorial System even now leave little to be desired. But after all the paragon can go far with a library alone, and is never the problem child of higher education, wherever he finds himself. The real puzzle has always been, is, and will always be the student who has the potentialities which, owing to disinterest, laziness, distraction, or a sense of proportions, are never developed...
Professor Munn's Committee on the Choice of Electives interviewed 662 students during the Spring and Fall of last year and found that many Freshmen showed abysmal ignorance about the all important problem of concentration in departments of the University. Having spent all their Freshman year satisfying elementary requirement such as English A and History 1, the students knew comparatively little about the various fields of concentration, or what the departments, had to offer. The result was that the Committee was forced to assume the duties of the Freshman advisers, who should have counseled their advisees earlier in the year...