Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form of an essay written extemporaneously on a subject chosen from a number of subjects that are proposed at the time of the examination. (The winner of the prize must devote at least one half of his time in the coming year to the study of some problem or problems relating to the relation of government to industry under the supervision of the Department of Economics. It is distinctly a prize that may be held in addition to a scholarship or fellowship. The date of the competition will be announced shortly...
Yesterday's development confronts the Corporation with a problem it has dreaded to face for years. Under Mr. Pound's able guidance the Law School has so far successfully resisted all attempts of competitors such as Yale to wrest the legal blue ribbon from Cambridge. Whether it continues to do so depends largely on the choice of a successor...
...social life is platitudinous and betrays a total lack of realism. Of 280 odd Freshman commuters last year only 25 were able to eat three or more meals in the Union during the entire year. Taking note of this fact the P. B. H. Committee who studied the problem said "obviously the bulk of the Freshmen commuters cannot afford the cost of the food at the Union." Dudley Hall was renovated in pursuance of this report. Why as a matter of course Freshmen living at home were not extended the facilities of Dudley it is difficult to imagine...
Their whole-hearted sympathy and unfailing zeal in tackling a difficult problem under adverse conditions has earned them the respect and gratitude of the whole university...
Cambridge University today, indeed all universities, I suppose, are divided into the Herricks and the Miltons, to take the latter in his mood of "hence, vain deluding joys." This problem faces every freshman, and if his friends, his purse or his tastes decide for him, the decision must be made--whether to regard youth (which means university career) as a gift which must be enjoyed, or as a fateful threshold to life. Only the very lucky ones can have it both ways, can dance in the Spring and reap a catch crop harvest in the Autumn...