Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current discussion of the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill, the Senate is playing with dynamite. Not even the degrading horror of lynch law can condone the interference of the federal government in a problem which from a practical and moral viewpoint is totally the affair of the individual states. A solicitous national government has in the past often burnt its fingers by sticking them into purely sectional affairs, and it would be shortsighted folly for it to do so once again...
Lynching comes in most cases from a mob disillusioned with the methods of normal jurisprudence. Because of the insoluble race problem, it is a particularly flagrant evil in the Southern states. Not until the people of the sub-Mason and Dixon area are sufficiently impressed with the tradition of jurisprudence to take their cases to the court-house instead of to the nearest tree will the scandal come to an end. In the meantime, although causing national embarrassment, Iyaho law is a completely local problem, and the task of checking mob hysters and granting an impartial trial to its citizens...
Every conceivable scheme has been tried by the House Masters to solve Harvard's perpetually vexing problem, that of ways and means of bringing instructors and students into closer contact than they enjoy at the present time, Perplexing as the question is, the most successful plan tried so far has been the abolition of that cloistered and clannish institution, the tutors' table...
Occupied with problems and duties at home, Harvard students are inclined to ignore a field of action in which the University takes quiet but profound pride. The latest reports of the Bowles expedition in Tibet, which bid fair to replace several missing tiles in the exotic and unfamiliar mosiac of that region, show once again that the triumphs of Harvard scholarship are far from being confined to Cambridge. If present hopes are realized, the discoveries made by Mr. Bowles and his party, although taking place in remotest Asia, will throw an essential light on the perplexing problem of the origin...
...logicians were as keenly appreciated as the generalship of an astute quarterback. Sanders Theatre and Symphony Hall were the scenes of the verbal battles. Interest thereafter declined steadily and the turnouts for debates in the middle twenties--even today--taxed the heart of the most courageous orator. Realizing the problem the officers of the Council and the director inaugurated an ambitious program of radio debates. The first long distance broadcast was in 1928 with Oxford. Since then there has been almost yearly trans-Atlantic discussions. There was one this year, and in addition a week ago the longest broadcast debate...