Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WEDNESDAY.English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Mr. Moors: The Present Dangerous Aspects of the Labor Problem. Sever...
...repition of the futile efforts of the last to accomplish something. It is simply apalling to consider the amount of learned thought which is displayed in the ever recurring and ever instructive "voted to adjourn." We are glad to see that, in the lull of the great athletic problem as to which college lost the most blood in the glorious foot-ball campaign of last season, the seniors of Williams feel called upon to declare themselves in favor of a more extensive study of Physiology. But is not this tinged with a little of the spirit of the assassin...
...Atlantic Monthly last winter. It is entitled "Our Civil War the Cause of a New Interest in Economics," and treats of the economical questions which were forced upon the country by the Rebellion, and the grave blunders which our statesmen made before arriving at solutions of the problems. The last part of the chapter is devoted to the consideration of some of the political questions of the day which require a knowledge of political economy, such as the silver question, the banking question, the problem of national taxation, navigation laws, paper money as a part of the circulating medium, public...
...urge him on by inciting nobler ambitions, and do not regard him as a machine which has no motive power of its own, but must be watched and managed, then the evils attending college discipline will very readily disappear. The true way in which to meet this problem is to urge students to look at the subject in a clearer light, for students themselves to raise the student sentiment and discourage cribbing as unfair and unprofitable. Let the proctors be removed from examination rooms, make every man responsible to himself and college for honesty in examinations, let college sentiment...
...stroke is another problem which should be carefully studied, and the idea of first fixing a stroke and then training your crew to pull it, is sheer nonsense. We hear altogether too much about a thirty-eight, forty or forty-two stroke, and the men who advocate such a course have not carefully considered the matter. A crew should be trained to pull the highest stroke the men are capable of keeping up for the distance they are to row. If I should coach a crew of giants who proved themselves capable of holding a sixty stroke for four miles...