Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report tells of the Freshman's difficulties in the first weeks of college, of his ambitions, disappointments, and mistakes caused by ignorance of his surroundings. When those who set in judgment decide the fate of one of these members of 1931, the Advisor's report may settle the problem one way or the other. It is because of these cases--comparatively few, actually fairly numerous--that the Student Advisors' exist in that capacity. The inception of Freshman week, one of the achievements of Dean Greenough's administration, has given the Advisor's added reason for being. The undergraduates have...
...like due deliberation. Moreover, the running of the hall without detrimental loss is still only a scheme on paper. The reasonable price at which it is proposed to offer viands is good fodder for skeptics who cannot be categorically contradicted. Yet, the University has studied this aspect of the problem as well as the others and is to a certain extent, plighting its faith with the student body. The proposed hall has, besides, the advantage over Memorial Hall of a better location. But all progress waits upon the student poll...
...rather meet concern for a police regulation. And certainly the publicity of drunkenness has increased to proportions which do not alarm the alarmists and That, however, a speedy replacement of the amendment itself and state laws similarly stringent, is really called for, constitutes another matter, constitutes in fact a problem which all the wisdom of the nation is needed to solve...
Likewise, on the other hand, it is true that prohibition has saddled the political parties with a burden under which they are cringing even more than is their usual custom. There is no way however, to remove this problem from their attention now: all agitation brings it closer under their scrutiny. It is not entirely a false notion that the administration of the Treasury Department has been in part corrupted and much confused by the exigencies of enforcement. Yet the government does not do well to confess impotency too readily however impracticable a project it has undertaken...
...moderate interest in things intellectual might not be developed into a genuine appreciation, or, on the other hand, a seemingly scholarly bent may be only transient. If Dr. Faunce's test could ever be satisfactorily applied it would certainly go a long way toward solving a problem, but it would seem, at first sight, to be more useful as a recapitulatory for a college graduate than as an index for an entrant. Where the latter could profit by it, only the former can, well apply...