Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the year there emerges from University Hall a storm of little white envelopes containing what are euphemistically termed "study cards." To all but the most conscientious of undergraduates--who, months beforehand, have carefully planned the minute details of their curriculum--the familiar forms are distinctly painful; and the problem of deciding upon one's intellectual career is made doubly hard by the notorious vagueness of the official register...
This privilege should also be extended to those who live, by choice, in "rat houses." The problem of accommodating these men would be small, as most of them belong to clubs, and the light that this new experience would bring into the narrow lives of these individuals defies estimate...
Four hundred men will gain a pleasanter, fuller, more truly "Harvard" education if this temporary measure is put into effect, as it can be with the cooperation of the Housemasters. And it should be remembered, in consideration this and any other problem involving them, that the Houses are the instruments and not the rulers of University policy...
Jamming Sanders Theatre to its capacity, 1250 Harvard and Radcliffe students and various townspeople turned out last night to hear Eddie Cantor, Dorothy Thompson, and Leverett Saltonstall '14 speak on the refugee problem. Unfortunately, Dorothy Thompson's sole contribution was a telegram briefly announcing that she was unable to appear due to illness...
...attention given to the Refugee situation is undoubtedly laudable. I think, however, that the Harvard Committee for Refugees is making a mistake in its method of attacking the problem. It seems to me that to help 25 refugee students through college by means of monetary subscriptions is short-sighted and unintelligent. I believe that the money to be raised should be used to help a mass of refugees to gain security in term of daily needs. To find means of getting out of Germany, to find a place to eat and sleep are their primary requisites. Higher education...