Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the Treasury Department in Washington characterized as a "wide de- parture," what many a Wet construed as a reduction of the law to an absurdity, what many a Dry welcomed as a solution of the problem of punishing liquor buyers occurred last week in the U. S. District Court at Peoria, 111. There Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry laid down a new and startling interpretation of the Jones...
...QUEST FOR CERTAINTY?John Dewey?Minton, Balch ($4.00). John Dewey, philosopher's philosopher, educator's educator, has played a role in U. S. life not small but not popular.* In his latest book Dr. Dewey returns to one of his favorite attacks on a stubborn position: the problem of getting philosophical knowledge into action. Academic as Dr. Dewey may appear to the layman, he has ever had little use for a fugitive and cloistered learning that never sallies out and seeks its adversary: Life. Experimental knowledge, says he, is the most authentic, the only kind actually worth much. "Knowledge which...
...cent of the entire area. It is a feature of the work which is bound to interest laymen, because it shows for the first time how narrow are the areas within which all the gorillas in the world, outside of zoos, are confined. The map also raises a problem for scientists in the difficulty of explaining why the gorilla should not be found elsewhere, and also why a forest belt 750 miles wide should separate the homes of the two known subspecies...
Students in the Harvard Engineering School are not to be allowed to apply for the first two units of the House Plan. Whether, in time, this group will be included, or whether separate quarters will be provided for it is still in doubt. But before the problem of the disposal of these some 200 students is finally solved, it is necessary to note both the lack of fairness and the lack of wisdom in separating the Engineering School from the remainder of the College...
...settings of A.A. Milne's English comedy, despite the fact that they offered an unusually difficult problem for the designer, will thus again be the work of an undergraduate artist. This is in accordance with the Dramatic Club's policy of making use of student talent where ever possible. The three dimensional treatment so much in evidence in modern scenic design will be followed in the fall production, where actual construction of details of the sets will supplant painted mouldings and bookshelves...