Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only draw back being that only a small percentage of parents are in possession of the eight thousand at the proper time, --the birth of the young subject. Dean Gauss is to be congratulated, however, on bringing up and advancing valuable suggestions on the other side of the problem, --not how to keep out men ill-suited for college or how to wood out cases of mal-adjustment once in, but means by which those most intimately in touch with the individual can make the decision...
...peace compact. In his opinion, everybody is trying to go further in the matter of disarmament than the present stags and temper of European politics will permit. He drew attention to the fact that the Third Commission of the Assembly, which had been studying the problem, has been snowed under by con- flicting compacts, resolutions and covenants. He suggested, there- fore, that the Commission should remain at work doing nothing more than preparing a program for the Preparatory Disarmament commission, due to meet in November...
...Count Apponyi, undaunted hero of 64 sabre duels. As the problem at issue really involves the practice of the Rumanians of virtually confiscating without payment the property of Hungarians, in accordance with the Rumanian Agrarian Reform but contrary to the peace treaty and to the minorities treaty, the venerable Magyar aristocrat pressed for an advisory opinion from the World Court...
...season, one of the outstanding tackles in Eastern gridiron ranks, and reports so far this year indicate that his work shows anything but decline. With Captain Pratt, then, taking care of one tackle assignment in competent fashion, the University coaching staff is confronted with the problem of finding or developing a capable running mate for the Crimson leader. Clark at present gives the greatest promise of measuring up to this standard...
...parts in the past of these two halls. Massachusetts, the older of the pair and the oldest building now standing in the University, has perhaps the less eventful history. It was erected in 1720 at the expense of the Province of Massachusetts to meet the demands of the housing problem. Complaint was made that "a considerable number of students were obliged to take lodgings in the town of Cambridge for want of accomodations in the College", and to please the collegiate commuters of the day, the building was erected substantially as it now stands. Used variously as a dormitory...