Word: confront
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Royce, the first speaker, made the subject of his remarks certain problems that confront those who are actively engaged in the advancement of special research and graduate work in America. An English observer feared that we pay too little attention to developing the undergraduate in our endeavor to secure success in special research. These ideas in regard to graduate work suggest to us in America a warning. We must be careful not to lose sight of our ideals, nor of our general culture in the all-absorbing work of our special research. And yet there is no reason...
...playwrights for these theatres, M. Francois de Curel has attained the greatest success. More recently, M. Bruyerre has scored a success with "En Paix," a study of lunatic asylums. In "La Clairiere," Mm. Lucien Descaves and Maurice Donnay present in a very clear manner the social problems that confront our society, and show the difficulties that protract their solution...