Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions published in another column of this issue of the CRIMSON give some indication of the various classes which the House Masters have considered important and is obviously well adapted to their purpose. The problem of working up the data will be a hard one, and even if an absolutely exact cross section of College were possible there are times when a departure from this ideal would seem advisable especially at first when there are but a few Houses, the masters will be particularly justified in taking more than a pro rata allowance from such groups as students from other...
...navy at the outbreak of the War, in which he won the tiny but coveted rosette of the Legion of Honor for his invention of a wireless receiver for submerged submarines. Last week's prize of $46,299 was awarded for his theory of wave mechanics in the problem of atomic constituion. Roughly and as elaborated by other researches, the Due de Broglie's theory is that matter consists of a series of waves as well as of corpuscles...
Cross Roads. Martin Flavin's third play of the season, posing a marriage problem among poor college students, developing it hectically, solving it dubiously...
...scoured the U. S. for a good draughtsman, found Boardman Robinson, painter-cartoonist, asked him for a set of murals expressing the history of commerce. Some years before, Artist Robinson had concluded that the only excuse for painting was to subserve architecture and had applied himself to that problem. Delightedly he accepted the commission, but reserved the right to be his own master at all times, to make his own designs, be left alone. Mr. Kaufmann agreed...
...World War presented a world problem whose magnitude was unparalleled. It was the solution of this problem in the light of self-preservation that Clemenceau had to find. At times he probably overstepped the limits of precedence, always focusing his attention on the end rather than the means, and some have questioned his drastic and dramatic gestures. But he did attain his purpose in spite of the huge odds the first days of the war heaped up against him. It was this direct, energetic, indomitable spirit that made him a figure of world importance. He was one of the last...