Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in five long years of much discussion and little action, Harvard has taken definite steps to ameliorate its Housing problem. Yesterday University Hall gave out the gladsome tidings that the Associate Member Plan has been adopted and that preference in the admission of upperclassmen to the Houses has been assured. Such a move as this must be gratifying not only to the Freshman class but to the whole college as well; for the cleavages between House men and out-of-Housers which have become increasingly sharp recently will now tend to disappear...
...when thought is once converted into action, as has happened in this instance, it is likely that suggestions for definite measures in the future will be more readily met. Indeed, it is this aspect of the decision that is as cheering as any tangible achievement made toward alleviating this problem. For, excellent as these moves are, they cannot be regarded as final solutions. There yet remains to be solved the very thorny question of House selection...
From the field of Economics comes the feeling that the entire problem is far too vast to be solved by a more proposal of cross-field concentration. Harold H. Burbank, Chairman of the Department of Economics and Wells Professor of Political Economy, who has worked with the tutorial system for twenty-five years, said that the teaching staff is not large enough to follow through on the plan...
Last week Northwest Airlines got practical about the problem, announced that it was installing plane oxygen systems which will : 1) cure airsickness, 2) prevent heart palpi tation and hard breathing at high altitudes, 3) make flying comfortable at cruising levels up to 30,000 feet, 4) prevent the painful sensation of having one's ears stopped up in descents from flights...
Prison Without Bars (United Artists-Alexander Korda). For reasons which are growing increasingly mysterious, French cinema producers seem to have become obsessed with the problem of female institutions. Model for all such pictures was, of course, the German Maedchen in Uniform, but in this the theme, more or less intrinsic to the background, was Lesbianism. French producers have not been obliged to resort to any such spectacular embellishments. Pictures like Club de Femmes, La Maternelle, Forty Little Mothers, Ballerina, make it apparent that French producers are interested in seminaries, kindergartens and sewing circles solely on their own merits, that they...