Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little satisfaction. The pamphlet that have been prepared by students labor under the disadvantage that they are not authoritative. Besides this they have the appearance of being compiled for the purpose of telling how many hour examinations each instructor requires, and as an attempt to solve that great problem of modern times - the marking system - rather than as a legitimate guide in the selection of courses. To remove the objection of meagreness of the elective pamphlet and as a supplement to it, the instructors in geology have been in the habit for the past few years of issuing a separate...
...industrial problem was first discussed. Agriculture is too much in the hands of large land-holders. Mr. Page described the character and manner of living of the farming population of North Carolina, and kept the audience in continual good humor with his apt word pictures. "No other people in the world," he said, "have developed so far the art of resting." Manufactures are rapidly increasing in importance, especially those of cotton, iron, steel and lumber. In North Carolina alone there are 40,000 square miles of forest as yet untouched. This amount is exceeded in Florida and Georgia, and equalled...
...negro problem is the other great problem. There are three classes of negroes: 1 - The educated and ambitious; 2 - The inhabitants of the upland States, who are intelligent and industrious; 3 - Those in the lowland States, like Mississippi, who are but three generations removed from a savage ancestry, and are half savage themselves. The upland negroes are as far superior to the negroes of the lowlands or "black belt" as we are to our barbarous Anglo-Saxon ancestors. Among the former the negro problem is solving itself. Amalgamation is not, as yet, an important factor in the problem...
...lecture tonight by Mr. Walter H. Page should be largely attended. The subject is one with which every practical man should be acquainted, as the problem in regard to labor in the South and the manufacturing and social future of that portion of the country is to be one of the important questions of the coming years. Mr. Page is both a keen observer and an able lecturer, so that the subject cannot fail to be presented in an interesting form...
...arrangements of dormitories have excited of late years an interest formerly unknown. The older buildings at Harvard and Yale have suffered from the existence of defects which have been remedied as far as possible, although the perfect ventilation of recitation rooms remains in some of these structures an unsolved problem. But the newer buildings at these colleges and at Columbia embody the application of the best scientific knowledge to the securing of air, light, and satisfactory drainage. - [N. Y. Tribune...