Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Facing the Corporation at this or its next fortnightly meeting will be the problem of appointing men to fill two vacant chairs in the English Department. These are the Francis Lee Higginson Professorship, recently vacated by John L. Lowes '05, and the Gurney Professorship of English Literature, rumored vacated by Fred N. Robinson...
...annual rush on the Houses is gaining momentum and with it the problem of the rejected applicants rears its ugly head. Various schemes for giving students living about the square an opportunity to participate in House activities have been offered. Outstanding among them is the suggestion that associate memberships be established in the various Houses. However, the proposal has failed to click and there seems to be no likelihood that it will be acted upon in the near future. What can be done in the meantime...
...favors a deep, firmly rooted, but extremely limited knowledge. It leans toward vocationalism. The other favors a broader and more integrated type of learning. It admits less depth in a particular department, but argues that an examination of all the possible approaches within a wide area to a specific problem, and a consequent understanding of the relations between these different approaches, outweighs the loss. If it is admitted that the objects of formal education are to train the intellectual powers and to further the cultural development, then the second seems definitely superior...
Chief boon to the workers in the field in the Pickering collection of plates compiled by the Observatory some 40 years ago. These plates, unused because of lack of equipment, now have become the most valuable method of approach to the previously insoluble problem...
...attempt to enable Freshmen to face more intelligence the problem involved in gaining admission to a House, the CRIMSON will run a series of articles on the many phases of this annually recurring headache...