Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...food instead of horses and liquid refreshments. One hundred and eighty five signatures are adequate proof that, whatever be the cause, a university dining hall with club tables is not the present be-all and the end-all of the student appetite. And the question arises--is "the eating problem", after all, merely a mirage? Do not the present figures indicate that the food situation is satisfactory and that attempts to change it only create unnecessary difficulty...
...difficult problem of news gathering, presented in its most acute form in the colleges where editors and reporters must also to a certain extent be students, has existed since the earliest days of college newspapers. At that time when journalism was still struggling to gain a definite place in the undergraduate life of the larger universities the much hearalded indifference of Harvard men made the task of the early Herald-Crimson particularly trying. In 1884, the first year of the new daily, protests by undergraduates about the scantiness of the news appearing in its columns brought forth a vigorous editorial...
...challenge makes seven recommendations in all, most of which deal with the problem of preserving the absolutely amateur character of the games. The Harvard-Yale team as it was finally formulated consisted of 17 competitors, two men being taken for each event except the mile and three mile for both of which only three competitors were chosen...
...system seems to them, having taken the course--or at least being in at the death, advisable in the particular instance. Now there is nothing more difficult to obtain than helpful and intelligent criticism from those who are at the moment enmeshed in their own personal problems. Nevertheless students who have genuinely constructive opinions concerning their courses and who possess Platonic idealism which allows them to look upon the turmoil with some idea of objectivity, should not hesitate to proffer their views. Every undergraduate is, unfortunately, troubled with a certain inferiority complex in the question of pedagogy--pedagogy both theoretical...
Moderator Thompson's great problem last year was to dampen the shoutings of Presbyterians who interpreted their creed differently and sincerely. Presbyterian legalists learned a new patience last year for Presbyterian humanists; humanists tolerated the behavior of legalists. As a result Moderator Speer can give his energies to Church administration instead of to pacification...