Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sympathy between faculty and student grows stronger with every new discussion of the modern educational system. The latest mediator in the student problem is President Clarence C. Little of Michigan, who, in Scribner's has written a stimulating, and in some ways an illuminating article. Dr. Little has selected four topics about which, he says, revolves much agitation in University circles; he has, admittedly, chosen them from a mass of others an I he does not claim that any one constitutes an issue. Each, however, does bear direct relation to both the student and Dr. Little refers primarily...
...University. It is always difficult to provide a varied diet for a regular daily custom. The choice of meats, for example, is not as large as it once was; we have no game to put on the table, and the range of other meats is very small. The perennial problem of the housewife is to plan the next day's meal to be such that her family will not complain of the lack of variety. The same is true, on a larger scale, of the restaurant owner, and especially of the proprietor of a college eating place, where the trade...
...Windy sentimentalism is the driving force behind most of the agitation for independence in the Philippine Islands," he declared, "and most of the people are ignorant of the true facts of the Philippine problem. It is pathetic fanaticism to think that world conscience as it exists and operates today would be sufficient to protect an independent Philippine nation from external aggression dictated by the biologic urge of self-preservation. National necessity and economic imperatives have proved the impotence of the diplomatists' declarations that their nations will respect political independence and territorial integrity. The sovereign independence of the defunct kingdom...
...Refusal to recognize the facts and to act accordingly will only serve to keep the Philippine problem in a state of insolution, and it is the Filipinos who would be the heaviest losers from such a condition...
...negro problem has always been one of great moment in the United States, and the slowness and inefficacy with which it has been treated has long been a topic of discussion and a cause for shame. Therefore the news that the South is aiding the negro to educate himself is most welcome, as a sign both of negro educational advancement and of the enlightenment of the people as a whole. It is also most encouraging to learn that this progress is taking place in the South wherein lay most obstacles to the solution of this problem...