Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...relation between high marks in college and success in later life remains an interesting, and for lack of trustworthy evidence, a puzzling problem. It is complicated by the fact that such success is so various that it is impossible to lay down a universal standard by which men's relative attainments can be measured. Wealth, eminence in public affairs, social usefulness and historical fame are all legitimate objects of human endeavor, and none can be set above the rest or even expressed in terms of any other...
...Roger I. Lee '02, Professor of Hygiene, describes in the current Alumni Bulletin the various ways in which the University is working upon the problem of student health. The precautions taken against infantile paralysis were such that although the University started on time last fall, there was but one case of the disease. This particular student had been frequently away from Cambridge and the source of infection was unknown...
Compared with this problem, rehabilitation of the wasted area will be a comparatively simple matter, one which will require work rather than an economic solution...
...have been questioned as to the amount necessary for Harvard's purposes. It is difficult to answer accurately such an inquiry. But those who have had the chance to give some study to the problem confidently believe that the sum of $10,000,000 indicates a figure that will adroitly serve Harvard's need, and that is well within the powers of her graduates to raise
...campaign come as a result of the constantly increasing financial needs of the University without a corresponding increase in resources. The want of money for proper laboratory and scientific equipment, and for the payment of sufficient salaries to the corps of instructors led to the formal consideration of the problem by the Alumni Association and adoption of the following resolution, after conference with the President and Fellows...