Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Watch them as they march, O fair Vermont! . . . Coolidge dreaming over a furrow, Balancing a testy problem As he swings the ax over cordwood. He in a man of your mountains, He is a man of your hills. Firm and honest and gentle. Leader and honest citizen- He Is a man of your breeding- Coolidye-man of the mountains
...going to pay the cost of the Hall-Mills case, not because she has any personal desire to solve the financial problem of Somerset county resulting from that litigation, but because she owes certain taxes to the county because of her inheritance, and the county is going to devote the money realized from the inheritance tax to defray the expenses of the case...
...educators: that is to say, the restriction of education. "People engaged in public instruction are inclined to go too far in thinking that everyone should be encouraged to pursue his schooling to the furthest possible stage," writes the President, and thereby comments and takes a definite view on a problem which faces not only Harvard, but also every other college or university, however small or large...
...interest may stultify his mind and fret his character." This attitude is a revival of humanism and is a ray of light in a welter of academicians whose pedagogical zeal has overruled their sanity. When its truth is realized one may look for a disentanglement of the educational problem which especially in America, is growing dangerously complex...
...this measure passes, it looks as if a satisfactory solution of the problem of nominations would be found between the undue party influence of the old conventions and the extreme division of power made by the primary system that makes it difficult for an individual to gain merited recognition. The party will be able to look about for a suitable candidate, at the same time being checked by the constant possibility of a challenge at the polls. The net result should be the creation of party influence of a high standard, perhaps the most desirable single achievement that could...