Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cannot ignore the condition that fosters such a type any longer. Illiteracy is the first problem that our reorganized educational system must undertake to solve...
...Since their fame rests upon certain qualities, no greater praise can be given than the discovery and use of those qualities. The following quotations represent sources of power which if acted upon as they once were, may achieve their former success. Let us keep in mind our particular problem of "radicalism" as it is seen in Lawrence, North Dakota, and Seattle...
...great problems of reconstruction which will be engaging our attention for a long time after the war will be that of education. Already the European nations have started housecleaning their old establishments. Despite the severe tasks which have confronted them, the British have undertaken a remodelling of their school system, and out of a sorely depleted treasury have voted eighty millions to begin on. Our Congress will shortly be considering a bill which proposes to make a national problem of our public schools, which have hitherto been a state and local issue; according to the bill there shall...
...lines far from truth. It is said that the proposed bill is likely to pass Congress. In order that we may make sure and safe on honest and democratic education, we must see to it that national aid and guidance be combined with absolute local independence. This is a problem that concerns nothing less than the future of freedom in the United States. It comes home to every thinking American...
...ruminate upon the ultimate destiny of the Germanic Museum. Like the German "kultur" whence it sprang, the continuation of its raison d'etre is no longer desirable, unless, of course, we should decide to perpetuate the results of "kultur" in an up-to-date chamber of horrors. The problem of disposition must somehow be solved. At present it is but a monument of disputed architectural beauty, and of no practical benefit to its founders or to the University...