Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purposes outlined at the meeting Wednesday are reasonable with one exception. The Union is trying "to reduce the segregation of teachers from the rest of the workers who constitute the mass of the community", to preserve and extend academic freedom, and to fight against retrenchment in education. That these problems should receive the attention of an intelligent group of men is eminently desirable. One will also concede that social, political or economic opinions should not influence faculty appointments and promotions. One is only tempted to question the contention that any teacher may engage in any social, political, or economic activity...
...almost impossible to view the problem of American participation in the Olympic games at Berlin from a completely unbiased point of view. Social and Political questions have almost crowded the athletic aspect right off the stage, but one must not lose sight of the fact that participation in the Olympic games in 1936 is by no means an endorsement of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi principles of government...
...trials for membership on the German team. This in itself is an extremely difficult task, and no matter what the verdict, there will be an angry barrage of criticism. However, since the A.A.U. is better qualified to make this answer than the average observer, the answer to the whole problem should hang on its decision. It is unfortunate that a high-minded affair like the Olympic games should take place in Nazi Germany, but unless actual discrimination in athletics is proven, there is no valid reason for American athletes to refuse to compete in Berlin...
While Coach Carr wrestles with his problem on the Varsity field, next door Coach Jim MacDonald is trying to set the Freshman team right side up, which seems to be all that is the matter with it at present. The truth is that the boys are never in the correct position at the correct time...
...things human, psychological factors play a very important part in the complicated problem...