Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...major national problem these foreigners in our midst will loom in importance, as war problems fade. This task, indeed, will be the central one of reconstruction. No man knew this fact better nor preached its needs more consistently than Theodore Roosevelt. His recommendation should be our guarantee of its importance...
...former executive during the past seven year. In that period of bitter feeling and harsh criticism, he was unmoved by party or personal animosity and has been influenced only by his wide knowledge and upright character. With the aid of these faculties, he will explain to us the great problem...
...hardly seems that the problem can be solved in such a simple manner. The undergraduate is a stubborn brute--with a little clever manipulation you can lead him anywhere you will but it is an almost impossible task to drive him with a whip. And this it seems to me, is what they are attempting at New Haven. There is but one way to make the undergraduate pay more attention to his books. That is, to increase his desire to learn; stimulate his curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave...
...times of industrial strife and labor troubles which threaten to overturn existing institutions, it is in a way comforting to remember that the problem is not a new one. More than once before nations have been thrown into a turmoil because of capital-labor controversies and they have recovered. As one encouraging example of this truth, we reprint here a statement made by Daniel Webster in 1828, which seems particularly pertinent...
...their belief was the first, they were playing with fire, since the problem is too great and too vital to be a basis for "sport." In the second case their action takes away what is at present the only weapon--the strike--with which the employees of the telephone company can obtain redress for wrong or indeed even attention to their requests at Washington. That emergency calls should be handled is desirable, but let the government provide such service without the aid of undergraduates. Of those students who conscientiously believed the strike to be wrong, there can be no criticism...