Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which brings us to the problem of last fall's freshman quarterback and captain, Carroll Loewenstein. Harvard football has apparently inherent in it a tendency toward the production of small but proficient backs, a thing which has reached its peak of development in Loewenstein...
...large-scale price support plan involves the problem of overproduction by farmers because the government is always giving them a good price. This problem is handled by marketing quotas, drawn up by the farmers themselves. A quota limits the amount of a commodity a farmer can market, if he wants to receive subsidy benefits. This method, in effect, gives the farmers monopoly powers. Under the Brannan plan, the quota system would be greatly expanded. This part of the plan has raised the howl of "government control" in Congress. The main argument against the quota system is that it is liable...
...post-war inflation of costs has created a scholarship problem for the College. The minimum cost of going to Harvard College has increased about 50 per cent from about $1000 in 1940-41 to about $1500 or more now. Our scholarship money which comes from endowment has, of course, set increased anything like this amount...
...College Scholarship Committee has been studying this problem since October seeking ways and means to expand our financial aid resources by loans and employment. It appears improbable that we shall be able to expand our scholarship funds very greatly except slowly, over a period of several years...
...tough problem. It had to look out for the well-being of the regular airlines, and the taxpayer who subsidized them, but it also had a duty not to stifle the free, enterprising spirit in which the nonskeds had been born...