Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the problem not only of helping growing girls, but of bringing to maturity a generation of women who shall not be nervous wrecks...
...mind has not been marking time within the precincts of a dusty pedagogy during 27 years. It has a large side interest in botany, for which it has a second international reputation. And upon its central field it has driven through to fundamental strata. It has pondered the ineluctable problem of Law, the body of popular custom opposed to Law, the rational phenomenon. It has resolved in favor of the latter conception - "Law is a practical matter" - and it seeks to root out the arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source of friction is human wilfulness...
...farmer's situation and his persistent proclaiming of his tribulations constituted a most irritating subject, which was discussed gingerly. However, President O'Leary attacked the problem. His was the calm assurance of authority which gave him respectful hearing last year before the International Chamber of Commerce at Brussels. At that time he soothed the European members, who were excited about the possibilities of not collecting on the Dawes Plan (TIME, July 6, p. 5). This time he summed up his views thus...
...retain the old element of solidarity in undergraduate life, which was a feature of daily chapel that meant much to many Yale men. The question is of course, how we can regain that old solidarity under conditions where the very force of numbers is at the base of the problem. In the three classes of the college there now are over 1400 men, and as things are going there will be 1500 in the near future. Thirty years ago there were 1150 men in the four classes. There was a solidarity in the latter case, due to the fact that...
...Yale we still have the class, and it will take more than an increase in numbers entirely to wipe out that traditional division. But at Harvard they have been trying to work out a solution of the large college problem, the student council committee on education proposing to the university that a group of small college units be formed, such as grew up historically at Oxford and Cambridge. The Harvard undergraduates have been voting on this, and have declined to back their council on the plan in this first public consideration of it. It is certainly not a solution that...