Word: problems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...McAdoo, in speaking of "The Guarding of the City," said that in New York City, which contains four and onehalf millions of people, representing every race, tongue, and clime, the greatest problem of government is to keep up a thoroughly honest and efficient police force. Could such an organization be maintained there, New York City, the most cosmopolitan and the wealthiest community in the world, would be an orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant...
...Echegaray, who is also noted as a mathematician and statesman, high rank is universally accorded among the play-wrights of our own day. Not long ago he was awarded the Nobel prize, as a tribute to his artistic powers. It is to the problem play that Echegaray has given his greatest attention, and the fullest measure of his success in this direction may be seen in the piece which Mr. Faversham now offers in a form somewhat different from that in which Mr. Blair presented it in Boston, 1899, but sufficiently faithful to the original. From first to last...
...hear much of the slum. The slum is just a question of the per cent. you will take. If 5 per cent. there is no slum problem; if 25, it looms large. It pays to build bad tenements that wreck the home. That is the reason of the fight. As I said, it is just a question of greed and of the cold indifference that asks "Am I my brother's keeper?" In that war the generation that is coming has to take sides. Which side...
...thirty feet and the number of students most successfully taught by a single instructor at twenty-four. Obviously these laboratories divide the number of students in the department into small groups working under individual instructors and solve, once for all, so far as medical instruction is concerned, the problem of handling large bodies of students without losing the valuable element of close personal relations with the instructors. In addition to the student laboratories, each wing contains special laboratories, each wing contains special laboratories provided for the teaching force of the department--for it is an essential point in the general...
...following books by Harvard men have been recently published: "Christ and the Human Race," by C. C. Hall h.'97; "The Garden and its Accessories," by L. Underwood '97; "Tiles from the Porcelain Tower," by E. Gilchrist h.'52; "The Lodging House Problem in Boston," by A. B. Wolfe '02; "Preludes," by J. D. Logan...