Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reassuring that a great university and its experts should take an active part in such a creative task, and collect such reliable data that a modern problem might be dealt with in a modern way, by the application of technical knowledge. Not infrequently there has been expressed a hope that the men of American universities would do more than recognize the value to the nation's development of their technical work, but would attempt to apply it at times to certain problems through more direct means than books or the training of capable men. In modern times many problems...
...interests coincide so directly with those of the prospective employer. To be sure, only a very small fraction of even the leading contestants can expect to benefit in so direct a way, but the experiment is in the right direction and offers one means of solution to a difficult problem...
...clipping from the Tufts Weekly appearing in another portion of these columns announces the most spicy solution of the compulsory Chapel problem to be found in recent collegiate annals. No longer will puzzled Deans knot their brows over the baffling question of just how religious Mr. So-and-so may be; a momentary reference to the files of the records office will be sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt just the intensity of godly devotion which exists in the soul of any undergraduate. And conversely sinister addiction to ways of sin may be easily brought to light before things...
...hill to abolish capital punishment now being considered by the legislature, Professor Chafee's active leadership in its behalf will certainly stimulate interest in the question. Although the individual opinions of the layman are likely to be determined by his emotions and prejudices, the essentials of the problem are fundamentally of a scientific nature. Consequently the expert judgement of a law professor is particularly valuable in assisting the legislators to come to intelligent conclusions...
...Advertising men should be particularly interested in this invention, which is inevitable, because along with it will come, I believe, color printing in daily newspapers. "Another printing problem, that of the justifying typewriter by which each line will be filled out to make a full line of type, has been solved. ... It will be of great importance in making photo-composing possible, as the films will be made from typewritten material...