Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This case really starts a very serious social problem...
This shortcoming is by no means totally absent in the natural sciences; particularly in the biological sciences a good memory is the most essential weapon with which to fight an exam. Nevertheless, the laboratory periods counteract many evils, forcing the student as they do to solve the problem on his own by applying what he has learnt. The social sciences need "laboratory work" of the same kind. Tutorial and written papers are both steps in the right direction. Most important of all is that the teachers of the social sciences realize that their main object is not to present their...
Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, will discuss "The Spanish Problem and the Reasons for It," in Winthrop House tonight. The meeting will be at 8 o'clock, under the sponsorship of the Council of Government Concentrators. Professor Merriman is an authority on Spain, and the author of "The Rise of the Spanish Empire...
Thus have the tremendous potentialities of radio, especially in the field of education, been generally ignored. Harvard's Radio Workshop with its student workers and faculty advisers will attempt to point the way to the correction of these ills. From every angle it will attack the problem of presentation of ideas through sound. To quote its Constitution: "The object is to study and perfect new techniques for radio in the writing and producing of plays, poetry, and fiction, and effective presentation of political and sociological subjects of a more general educational character, and in the composition of music...
...same time, Harvard cannot consider her labor problem solved for good and all. For the present, a very liberal contract has been signed, and one which rectifies real injustices. Wage increases, a longer term of employment, and the all-important promise of an eventual closed shop can be justified by comparison with conditions of employment elsewhere, and by the fact that 85 per cent of the workers are already members of the Union. But concession today cannot be interpreted as indication of probable weakness tomorrow. It was only because of the basic willingness to modify unreasonable demands...