Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...develop principles of comparison in the study of education. The course will deal with the fundamental unity of education, the modifying influences of geological, ethnological, social and economic conditions, the actual differences in the educational systems of various countries, the tendency toward world uniformity in education, and the problem of national individuality as affected by education...
...basic problem in Mexico is the agrarian problem," stated Mr. Tannenbaum when asked for the chief problems facing Mexico. Next, in order of their importance, are the problems of their relation with the United States, the problem of political democracy, the race problem, education, and the industrial problem. The religious problem is least important...
...Desk had not erased the wrinkles of perplexity caused by this problem from its brow when the other telephone tinkled...
...writing brings up a problem about sensitive women. A sensitive woman can be either a bore, an embarrassment or a blessing. Or all three. Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book. Authoress Colby is sometimes tiresome, sometimes embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged...
...current college year, Harvard songs, a man of Cambridge and a host of other things of interest to the new student. Copies that are not sent to Freshmen are given to any new men in the University regardless of their department. But the Handbook cannot answer all the problems that confront the stranger in Cambridge for the first time, and to this end, a Bureau of Information is operated by undergraduate and graduate volunteers in the Parlors of the House during the week preceding and a few days after the opening of college. An average of about four hundred...