Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Ultimately the money will come in; it always does, for we have a habit of coming through finally in everything we undertake, but the problem is to raise that sum and do it now. It ought to be unnecessary to have to send collectors around to the delinquents, but even that torture may have to be resorted to unless something radical occurs. We have to get that missing $4,000 in to Phillips Brooks House immediately, or at least let them know why we have not paid. We do not want to get the "scrap of paper" attitude toward pledges...
...After dealing with the problem for months it seemed unlikely to those in the Industrial Department of the Emergency Fleet Corporation that a wise decision as to their fitness for work in the shipyards could be reached by most mechanics without more adequate information than could be offered to them through the employment offices and other ordinary sources of information. So true has it been that ship-building has been a mysterious art that little or nothing of value to the lay reader has been published regarding the operations in ship-building, or of the conditions which must be confronted...
...worry about the shipping problem and wonder how to carry a million men a year to France, but the notice of the arrival of the German liners is a most encouraging event in a period of doubt and hesitation. The other branches of the service might take the Navy's work as an example. They could learns a great lesson...
...Briggs, assistant librarian of the Widener Library and now in France, is, as representative of the American Library Association, in charge of the problem of distributing books to the military bases of the Expeditionary Forces. Twenty thousand books of fiction and general interest have recently been purchased in England by the American Y. M. C. A., and are now being sent to the soldiers at the military camps...
...spite of five holidays and plans for festive Mondays, neither anthracite nor bituminous is more plentiful. The coal question remains a serious thing. It was thought that the Student Council's plan of early retiring and early rising would contribute Harvard's small share to the solution of this problem. The student body has thought otherwise. Among the opponents of this plan there were heard those who condemned official action and advocated individual effort. Let every individual have it as his duty to economize coal and its derivatives. This is the only course left. We charge every student to feel...