Word: problem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council member admitted that he is stymied right now, because he has the problem of local book stores, which have "grown up around the College and depend on it," and also he doesn't know whether publishers will serve him if he sells their products below the established list price...
This will pose a difficult financial problem for the University, cutting off a large source of income without replacing it. But if Harvard wishes to continue doing literally nothing about football, it should also be honest to its undergraduates and to the public by playing average teams and charging fair ticket prices...
...member who had forgotten his music, Mr. Holmes suggested the difficulty faced by an amateur orchestra in finding appropriate music for its programs. Works simple enough to be performed by the non-professional musician are quite apt to be unsatisfactory to the listener. Granting the validity of this problem, it is more to the credit of Mr. Holmes and his Orchestra that they were able to select a program which would please the audience while still falling within the technical limitations of the players...
...problem we are concerned with," Dowd stated, "is the degree of responsibility the University has to the students, not just the moral principles involved in a pledge. Because the pledge may involve the entire student body, it is an 'apolitical' problem, and therefore should be handled by the Council, rather than the Union, YP, or any other college group...
Edward F. Burke '50, president of the Council, said that the Council is now investigating the matter and that the problem will come up for discussion at the regular Monday meeting...