Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burke is worried about one other problem on the activities scene. Large organizations often inadvertently schedule meetings for the same night, and competing political interests of various groups have often resulted in torn or disappearing posters...
...here that the story's solution to the problem of the irresponsible individual is weakest. Joe's sin was in insulating himself from the consciousness of his acts to society until it was too late to do anything more than expiate his crimes. True, the expiation provides the framework for a grim demonstration of the way moral justice embodied in his son breaks through his isolation. But the authors true to the classic tragedy, could find no other way of solving the riddle of society, which must deal with such individuals, or that of the sinner, than...
Along in 1942, several things combined to shift the situation. Not only was the College Faculty overworked, but the Radcliffe budget was beginning to pose a considerable problem; and when the war created space and personnel problems something had to be done. Complete divorce of the two institutions was out of the question: Dean Buck, in a special report to the Faculty in March, 1943, remarked on "the historic fact that Radcliffe has grown up under the shadow of Harvard, and something of a 'scrambled egg' exists. Divorce initiated by Harvard would mean the destruction of Radcliffe as a fist...
...regard to this problem, Dean Bender suggested a possible answer. "Perhaps in a couple of years, when the whole setup is shaken down a bit, we can re-examine class lists and separate a few of the largest courses again. It might be advisable in a few cases." A solution such as this might lead to one obvious trouble, which Dean Buck mentioned in another context--that teachers would have to give a course twice under that arrangement, whereas the joint system removes that old and formerly prevalent evil...
Rather than continuing, therefore, on the piecemeal method of improvement as the criticisms pick out one item on the menu after another, a professional investigation and recommendations should be sought to attack the problem at its root: the lack of efficiency in preparing and serving meals in the so-called temporary cafeteria style...