Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undoubtedly the Study's material will be invaluable to the staff of the Hygiene Department. But it must serve a broader purpose; it must be useful to the University as a whole. The problems faced by the 70 guinea pigs--problems of housing, of curriculum, of study habits--are representative of the entire student body. Nor are these the troubles of cantankerous "problem children," but rather of boys who are meeting their obligations with reasonable success. If the University recognizes the validity of the Study material, if it studies the every-day problems of every-day individuals...
Earnest Albert Hooton, professor of Anthropology, Curator of Somatology, and member of the faculty of the Peabody Museum, suggested in Collier's magazine today that assimilation of the Jewish minorities by intermarriage is the only solution of the "Jewish problem...
Worst of the problem children which harass a college curriculum are the survey courses, and at Harvard they are holy terrors. Through the years they have constantly grown until today they tend, because of their own unmanageable hugeness, to fall apart into disunified sections whose only point of similarity is subject material...
...prevent the further disintegration of its gawky problem children, the University must establish some stricter rule of discipline and wipe out the injustice that exists in far too many courses. Psychologists at Harvard have worked out an excellent system of marking for large classes. Yet with pitifully few exceptions, the other large courses have failed to take advantage of their refined and scholarly research. They prefer to go their own antiquated gait, leaving their marking system open to chance and injustice...
According to surveys by Time magazine and reports from the Yale News and Daily Princetonian to the CRIMSON, Yale and Princeton have a tutoring problem unique to American Universities, but small in comparison to Harvard...