Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another look at the value of the departmental advising system. The General Education Report has recognized the weaknesses as well as the potentialities of a function loosely designed as the left arm of tutorial, but most of its pregnant recommendations for worthwhile advising have fallen still-born. While the problem has always been an especially difficult one, the present inadequacy of many advisor-advisee relationships cannot be overlooked by a University which has been forced to raise both tuition and rent within the space of a term...
Tuned In. Detrola's Feldman soon had another problem: his radios were piling up. So he offered to sell 9,000 tons of steel at mill price ($100.09 a ton) to Boston's Clark & White, Inc., if it would also pay $875,000 for 28,000 radios. Clark & White accepted the proposition - and lost $580,000 on the radios; it sold them for $295,000. But it made up the loss handily - and $461,120 to boot - by selling the steel in the grey market...
...Sons (Universal-International), as a Broadway play, last year won Playwright Arthur Miller the Critics' Circle prize. It was an unusual play because it wrestled seriously with a moral problem. Its moral indignation makes it an even more unusual movie; but it is an only moderately good...
...chief moral problem: an industrialist (Edward G. Robinson) faces ruin if he is scrupulous enough to reject some defective war material. Moved by greed and devotion to his family, he passes the defective material along. He also tricks his partner (Frank Conroy) into taking the rap. Thousands of miles away, young men in U.S. uniforms die because of his crookedness. His younger son-rather uncon-incingly-commits suicide in protest; his elder son (Burt Lancaster) returns home to ferret out his secret. The father becomes at last fully aware of the dimensions of his crime and of the shallowness...
...Faculty's decision on the question of midterm grade requirements came only after extended study of the problem by a Student Council committee. That the Provost and the Faculty withheld its final vote until all of the Council committee's evidence had been gathered and presented is an encouraging sign of faculty confidence in and co-operation with the Council. In the same way, the fact that the Facnity acted on the attendance question soon after the first expressions of student opinion on the subject is a progressive token...