Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doom of the Arts College" is rather described than forecast by Herman G. James in the current New Republic. The educational problem does not lie, he says, in the elder colleges of the east. There tradition tends to preserve the atmosphere of learning, but the means of preservation, namely, limitation of enrollment, reduces the powers of these institutions to assist in solving the nationwide problem, that is, the struggle to stem the forces of vocational education before they completely efface the cultural features...
...This problem the state universities face. And, if the numbers that attend them, the tendency to enlarge them, and the influence they have in educational experimentation all be taken into account, the fortunes of education in America are inextricably bound up with their methods. Three factors continues Mr. James, are stripping them of their cultural character. The transference, in some places, of the last two years of the normal four year course to graduate work, leaves only two years for more general study. The attempts of professional departments to see that students entering their courses have had proper previous training...
...spite of this self-satisfied air among the Jews of America there is no lack of Jewish problems in America. Above all there is the problem of assimilation which is making big strides. The younger generation does not understand Yiddish...
...Secretary Dwight F. Davis, who said he came at the request of the President and to indicate the Administration's sympathy with flood sufferers. "The Mississippi can and must be controlled," said Secretary Davis. "The nation whose engineers built the Panama Canal despite seemingly insuperable obstacles can solve the . . . problem of flood control." He added that the solution was a matter for the next session of Congress to determine...
...CRIMSON sees no reason either to commend or to deplore the results of the ballot. The response reveals that the project was not sufficiently attractive to gain adequate support. Therefore it must submit to at least a temporary halt. There are, however, other avenues of approach to this problem. Eventually there will come a change in eating habits in Harvard University; realizing this, the CRIMSON has tried to prepare for that change. That its essay has not met with success is in no way a proof that its efforts have been misdirected...