Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime relief problem last week was whether the dole could be ended simply by saying so. Almost a year ago Harry Hopkins ordered all states and communities to shoulder the burden of their unemployables by Feb. 1 (TIME, Jan. 7). When he issued that same order last week, the question remained as to what the Federal Government would do if some states and communities were unable or unwilling to obey. "When some of the people of a great and wealthy country are suffering from starvation," President Roosevelt declared at Atlanta, "an honest government has no choice...
...purpose of real education is destroyed if hampered by limitations and taboos. When the full discussion of any problem is prohibited, liberal education becomes a dismal mockery...
While every community of over three thousand persons must consider the problem of misdemeanors committed by a few of its members, Harvard has been extraordinarily unsuccessful in attempting to answer it. Following the precedent of all traditions, a curious growth has been nurtured by the Superintendent of Caretakers and has been allowed to envelop the intricate problem of student conduct. Administrative officials admit there is no logic in the plan and were considerably surprised to learn that it is impossible to find a set of rules governing the Yard Police...
...drinking, and to many men drinking is just as much an activity as membership on an athletic team. The ordinary man is expected to drink himself under the table at least once, whether it be an initiation, a reunion, or some sort of party. An intelligent understanding of the problem is not helped by graduates who become drunk at football games and club dinners. We believe that students will not, and are as a practical matter, unable to change the faults of this situation...
...official facilities are inadequate for dealing ably with such a solution. A man with human understanding, who possesses the necessary time is urgently needed. Consequently, we favor the appointment of a new administrative officer whose general functions are described in the next editorial, but whose relation to the present problem will be discussed here...