Word: problems
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Francis Parkman Denny, The Race Problem.- Henry W. Grady (Boston...
...order of things could not have been found. Of national reputation, a patriotic reformer by inheritance, his address tonight will be not only the expression of his own ability, but representitive also of the position the ablest and most patriotic men of the country are taking on the great problem of our generation, purity and cleanliness in politics. His subject will be on the Ethics of Political Service, a topic on which he can draw much from his personal experience since he has always practiced his preaching that the scholar and gentleman should always take active part in politics...
This state of things gives rise to the so-called "Synoptic Problem,"-i. e. "How can the agreements and disagreements be accounted for satisfactorily?" There have been many theories put forward on this question, which have more or less probability in them, and Professor Thayer expounded the more important of them at length, ending with a sort of "combination" theory. That theory is a blending of all the good points in these other theories...
...income for food. Now if each man wastes five cents a day by bad methods of cooking, etc., the total waste for the United States in one year would amount to twelve million dollars, and the saving of this waste would mean the solving of the whole problem of shelter for the masses...
...that since the final vote on the matter rested with the Overseers, and since the Overseers are elected by the Alumni, in order that the Alumni may fully understand the position taken by the Faculty, "a circular has been sent by the University to every Alumnus, setting forth the problem which the college Faculty was called upon to solve, and of the considerations which determined its action." However admirable such a scheme might be, the facts of the case are that no such move has been taken...