Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the age-old problem of the commuters finally brought to a successful close through the establishment of Dudley Hall as a center for nonresidential social activities, members of the new organization will have an opportunity to meet each other informally at a smoker to be held at 8 o'clock in the building this evening. Peregrine White 2L, secretary of the organization, will preside...
...cool field general and an excellent punter, Haley will be missed by the team and its supporters. But the lack of evasion with which the problem has been resolved is fairest both to the Athletic Committee and Haley...
...question of tutorial guidance probably receives more attention as an abstract issue than as a vital problem which every freshman sooner or later has to face squarely. One thinks of a tutor as a person who requires work at more or less regular intervals, but the student generally forgets that the tutorial session involves rather more than the mere giving and receiving of factual knowledge. Two minds must cooperate to the utmost if there is to be a real benefit to the student...
...extraordinarily difficult to ascertain how good a tutor a man will be until one has to work with him. Here one faces the difficulty of having to change a tutor whom one likes but with whom one cannot work properly. The tendency will be to avoid the problem until the situation becomes critical. However, careful thought in the first place on the selection of a tutor greatly increases the probability of a correct choice The freshman should see that he gives definite thought to the subject of tutorial guidance. It's worth...
...many a Broadway show, was called in to supply special lyrics. Director Mamoulian, who made his name with the original play, was willing to leave Holly wood. Mamoulian liked working with Negroes, had a steadfast admiration for the primitive tragedy of Charleston's Catfish Row. This time, though, his problem was harder. His actors had to be singers, trained to time themselves to the subtlest beat. To match the Gershwin counter point, Mamoulian planned counterpoint in movement which would have the effect of a dramatic ballet. Porgy was to start one song simply, with: "I got a plenty o' nuthin...