Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...communication printed below starts the ball rolling for some definite plan of reorganization of the Union. The solution of this vital problem rests primarily on the heads of the undergraduates. No matter what plan is devised it is essential to have complete co-operation for it to succeed...
...schools, it must be said, respond to the best of their ability, but their ability is sometimes very limited. Public institutions stumble over the question of appropriations, private institutions meet the problem of insufficient endowment. Both are usually defeated. The result is such a scale of salaries that Normal School graduates find it more profitable to serve, let us say as hotel waiters, and full-fledged college professors have to content themselves with stipends that the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers would treat with scorn...
...education. Indeed one wonders how so many dared face the hardships of a course of training that covers so many years and offers no immediate remuneration. If we intend to elevate our standards and make our methods more efficient we must, out of common justice, first undertake the problem of higher salaries...
...years from 1907 to 1913, was interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday on the development of intramural athletics. While Graduate Treasurer, in 1909 Mr. Garcelon started the present Freshman athletic class. He advocates that this work, now, entirely voluntary be amplified and made compulsory. "The solution of the problem of intramural athletics," said Mr. Garcelon, "the way to turn the attention of the 'bleacher student' from the college teams and center it on his own activities, is not through the speeches and magazine articles which have continued for years, nor through the radical alteration of any of the features...
...done this, both in the East and West. Dr. Sargent has been one of the great pioneers in this great work. If Harvard will institute some courses in physical culture, and some required physical exercise for Freshmen as I have outlined before, under the management of an enthusiast, the problem of intramural athletics will be solved...