Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acceptance of Mr. Lowell and Mr. Hamlen of the duties formerly held by Mr. Hallowell comes as the solution of a difficult problem. The Memphis meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in April was being prepared for by Mr. Hallowell as one of the central features in what he called his "greatest Harvard year." President Lowell will be the executor of Mr. Hallowell's wishes in this regard. He will hold the office until the April meeting when a new president will be elected by the representatives of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...seeker of truth. It is well, however, at times to be rallied out of our smugness and take the field aggressively against our talkative foe and Holy Cross certainly, initiated the offensive since stilly when on cast Wednesday evening the Department of Biology conducted a lively debate on the problem of Organic Evolution. This intellectually connected a lively debate on the problem of Organic Evolution. This intellectually conducted argument in which the "pros" and "antis" of the question were permitted the utmost academic freedom in the presentation of their respective sides constitutes a ringing refutation to the cry of "obscurantism...
...problems that Mr. Lowell points out as facing the athletic board, two are of prime importance,--the overemphasis of first-team games in the minds of undergraduates and the recent lack of interest in inter-mural sports. The latter question has been settled at Harvard for the time being by the rise of class athletics, similar to those at Yale, and the innovation of inter-dormitory games. But Mr. Lowell passes over the first problem--that of over-emphasis--with the following laconic reference (specifically to the practice of having inter collegiate games every Saturday of the autumn)--"It tends...
...consideration of the reform proposed to meet this problem will show that effective provision has not been made. The plan is to play the same teams every two or three years but no team, with the exception of Yale, two years in succession. This step is intended to remove the spirit of competition from the game and hence diminish the emphasis on victory. Such step, how ever, would only increase the number of rivals and make the competition keener and more prolonged. The desire to retrieve lost laurels would be the stronger for waiting two or three years instead...
...side of her husband in the up rising of which he is the head. He is Datu Tahil, a high dignitary of the Moros, a people who have always been rebellious against the American rule; and her presence in the zone of fighting is said to be a serious problem to the Government troops who realize that if they should happen to injure the Princess there would be a general revolution among her people...