Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full upon them with the brightness of a newly risen sun. The New Deal-besides its large home schemes -has an even bigger scheme afoot: to make silver once more a world money metal. Beholding this sun, the silver world went wild and the New Deal had an international problem...
...School, little hope was held for a definite verdict as to the cause. Apparently these sporadic epidemics occur in the best regulated restaurants: before the days of the House Plan, periodic breaks from the Square cafeterias were not infrequent, and although every effort is being made to solve the problem, it seems that little more can be done than is done at present to obviate future difficulties...
...contention of many observers that the indifference toward social and economic issues which characterized the American undergraduate of the last fow decades is giving way to an active interest. In this issue of an ostensibly "literary" magazine five of the seven articles deal with some aspect of the social problem, one of the three stories is a savage reaction to the depression, and the other two have overtones of the class-struggle and unemployment, while a one-act play is laid in the tenement of a family on relief. Assuredly we may say, here is a sign of the times...
There is a strange air about these discussions; they do not attack social problems in general; they are interested only in the predicament in which young men of a certain class suddenly and bewilderingly find themselves. The authors do not endeavour to theorize on a plane of universality; whatever else they may be, they are conspicuously honest, and understand that their problem is simply to ascertain where, if anywhere at all, they and men like them belong...
...system is unfair to the incoming freshman class ('39), which, being unorganized, will have difficulty enough realizing what advantages the various sports offer, without the added problem of buying their own equipment. With such an informal aspect to their sports, the ultimate result can only be the abandonment of the sports involved, or at best, participation by a small minority...