Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Graduation wreaked with the Big Green infield, the not result being that four new infielders had to be discovered. By now, they have been found, but they haven't found themselves very well yet, as was shown in Dartmouth's mediocre spring trip. Herein lies the big problem for the team...
...active desire to fight or mitigate the vice which exists in the Square. Their attitude has rather been curiously apathetic, a halting disapproval which has never been vigorous enough to drive them to organized warfare. This apathy has naturally enervated any other groups with vested interests in the problem. Just how the administrative officers have been able to lull themselves into such a pleasant slumber is an interesting question...
...which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him" which drives a student to tutoring schools, according to one letter. A father bemoans the fact that a professor refused his Freshman son needed aid, forcing him to a tutoring school. Two Freshmen accuse the University of ignoring the problem which first year men meet in organizing their work and in facing an entirely new system. Others lambaste excessive and dull reading lists...
...problem of adjustment is peculiarly important. It is difficult for Freshmen to meet the machine-like routine of Harvard. They are in need of conscientious guidance and aid in each course, they require individual treatment and consideration in the assignment of work. Instead they are here faced with an inordinately difficult course like History I; often with unfeeling automatons for instructor. Small wonder that the sirens from across the strait lure them...
...occupational diseases are rickets, pellagra, dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia, starvation, sullen hatred exploding periodically in bloody strikes. Old American stock, they are mostly refugee sharecroppers from the Dust Bowl of the Southwest and Midwest. They are called the "Oakies." There are 250,000 of them-a leading U. S. social problem, and participants in one of the grimmest migrations of history...