Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...This conception and its application have, I believe, a defect which I think is at least partly responsible for the odd fact that, so far as I can discover, about eight men in ten, on completing their formal education, find the choice of a life work an extremely perplexing problem. This defect, however, is one which neither Harvard nor yet all colleges combined could do anything appreciable to remedy: because the remedy must be first applied at the very beginning of the child's formal education, that is, in the kindergarten or primary school. And precisely this is already being...
...theme, too, was remedy and not defect. I had aimed to give, in the "Illustrated," a bit of advice that seems sometimes to have helped young men when they face that troublesome problem of choosing a life career. In very condensed form that advice is, to bear in mind that those interests and proclivities which one acquired spontaneously as a boy, outside of the schoolroom, and which one has more or less kept up or more or less neglected during the more exacting years of high-school and college, that those proclivities are still a part of oneself. They...
...recent commandeering of one million tons of Dutch shipping, we have been added materially in our transportation problem. In these days of a shortage of ships and a superfluity of U-boats, we cannot get too much tonnage...
...meets with these two rivals are problematical. It seems probable that at least the Blue, the chances will be very nearly even. Both squads are handicapped by the loss of many former stars; neither can rely absolutely on this year's material. Princeton will be a more difficult problem...
Members of the Company Administration Course are directed to note that Major Flynn will give his lecture on Monday, March 18, at 7 P.M. instead of Wednesday, and are directed to bring Company Paper Work with them. Together with their solution of the problem assigned for this lecture. P. W. LONG, Captain and Adjutant...