Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such considerations, subjects students to the possibility of enduring as many as four two hour examinations in the span of a day. When the Harvard system is criticized by someone viewing it from outside, the principal objection is usually based on the question of wasted time. Harvard meets this problem by taking into consideration the length of the various vacations: in almost every instance these are shorter than the corresponding ones at other colleges. It is a case then of using time to better advantage...
...simplest solution of the problem would probably be to have a few proctors residing in the houses much as they do at present in the Yard dormitories. They could fulfill their current. College obligations under the supervision of the master of the house and could also cooperate with the tutors in meeting emergencies which were outside the province of the latter. It is improbable that they would play any more important part in the new houses than in the Senior dormitories, and yet it is important that someone be on hand to inforce discipline when necessary. Whereas the tutor could...
...York are to be entirely electrified at a cost of over $100,000,000. The change from the present system to that of electrification will require six or seven years, for its completion. In carrying out this plan the railroad is looking forward to the time when the problem of providing transportation facilities will be an entirely different matter than it is at present. The electrified system will be adequate to supply New York City with transportation facilities when that city has a population of 30,000,000 inhabitants. On these lines, trains of 125 cars each will travel...
...development of natural resources have steadily been working on the improvement of methods for estimating the nature of bodies concealed in the crust of the earth. No methods have been found or are likely to be found that will give a final and complete answer to this problem. encountered in the complex conditions that exist in nature, but with constant study more and more ways of scanning critical evidence of various sorts are being developed, so that today one "guess" about what is ahead of the pick is likely to be considerably more accurate than in the past, and there...
...last analysis, the problem rests in the hands of the architects. Furthermore, the importance of the project deserves all procurable attention from as many sources as possible. The monopoly of the University's physical development should by no means be intrusted to a single firm until it has made a strenuous effort to present a satisfactory solution of the controversial location of units. A competition for such a mammoth contract would draw forth valuable suggestions from a wide variety of competent sources. Such a procedure is the only way to procure the adequate consideration emphasized so strongly by both...