Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the fact that, in his opinion, Landis, support of Plan E sharpened the conflict between the two, he sees the solution as coming from more and not less of this sort of action: "The problem of the University is not to disassociate itself and its members from society in order to avoid attack, but rather to play a larger and more direct role in mass social life with wisdom, courage, temperance, humility, and understanding." He says this might be the test of whether culture can operate successfully in society as a whole...
...there is also a practical problem," he continued, "calling for the development of new, practical means of enforcing traditional values of individual freedom to withstand extraordinary conditions of shock and conflict, social irritability, the decadence of past imagery as to satisfactory social forms, and similar evidences of social discontent...
...problem of public relations, he states, was not being well handled by the University, which could learn much from various business concerns, labor unions, and from Yale, with its annual report to the New Haven community. "Harvard has not brushed the surface of what can and should be done," he said...
...dollars to have his honors thesis written for him and received a D for his money, and the men who merely spent a dollar each week a few years ago and then could forget about their English A themes, are only two examples. Yet these stories represent a serious problem for the University that will remain as long as even a small percentage of students continue to be downright dishonest. Individual "ghosts" and organizations of them, local and national, plying their trade now as they have for years, should be violently discouraged from continuing their activities around Cambridge...
...requirements of O'Neil in "The Great God Brown" make it necessary for the actors to put on and off their masks before the audience. The problem of holding the masks closely in place and yet allowing them to be taken on and off as part of the expressive action of the play was solved in the case of these made by the New England Repertory by the principle of a fencing mask, using sections of clock spring fitted to the size of the head...