Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most difficult problem of a committee head is to decide what issues his group will investigate during the year. Usually, problems can be divided into two classifications--the more immediate "front-page" grievances and long-range problems of policy that may require as much as several year's work...
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Last spring the HDC gambled that it could make a hit of Irwin Shaw's "The Survivors" when the show had just flopped miserably in New York, and it lost. Now it is gambling on its ability to solve a tremendous casting problem. If it wins--and a very experienced member of the rival Theater Workshop gives it much more of a chance to win than I would offhand--it will have put some unalloyed entertainment successfully on the Sanders stage. This doesn't happen often enough at Harvard. I'm not betting, but I'm hoping...
...requiring annual election of officers may react similarly to the disadvantage of industrial peace. The bill obviously aims at labor leaders who become so firmly entrenched politically that even the dissatisfaction of a majority of the workers cannot dislodge them. The problem of dealing with such leaders is indeed a great one. All honest laborites would welcome its solution...
...turned next to the problem of overcrowdedness in the College. The prewar size of the College was around 3500, Dean Bender said. "We wanted to bring the enrollment down from last year's 5600 to 5400 this fall, but many of our guesses went wrong...