Word: problems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time Coach Harold Sylvadore Ulen of the Varsity swimming squad was bemoaning the loss by graduation of the greatest team in Harvard aquatic history--the 1938 League Champions who in many ways rated the title of "the best dual meet team in the country." This year Hal's problem is different, for of last season's tankmen only Captain Rusty Greenhood, Harley Stowell, and Phil Walker have departed with the Class of '39. What he has left is a nucleus of experienced Seniors and Juniors, and a horde of Sophomores who make up in spirit for what they...
Recognizing the faults of the system. Princeton cannot overlook the fact that it is relieved of the problem and the expense of providing for the dining facilities of the undergraduate, Ziegler stated...
...theory that students must be "inoculated with the virus of self-perpetuating education"--which, translated, means inspired to go on, informally, and learn on their own initiative--that President Conant conceived of the American Civilization Plan. On another front, the University of Chicago is attacking the problem by exposing susceptible freshmen to the grand sweep of Knowledge--through mammoth survey courses such as Civilization I. Educators, or the best of them, know of the disease, and are attacking it; but quietly, perhaps unconsciously, students are themselves making the greatest inroads. They are doing so through increased participation in extracurricular activities...
...position will be similar to the "Director of Placement" recommended by the Committee of Eight as one solution of the tenure problem, and it was announced that he will study the problem of placing teachers when he arrives in Cambridge, besides serving on a University committee on educational placement to be appointed soon...
...tenure question has not been blazing any headlines of late, and the lack of concrete news has produced the impression that the whole problem has been permanently disposed of. Actually the controversy has merely proceeded into a second stage whose outcome will be as Harvard-shaking as that of the first. It has been recognized from the beginning that there were two more or less distinct issues involved. The long-run problem of flexibility in the system of appointments was debated and settled in spirited faculty meetings featured by ample journalistic spreads. But the immediate problem of the blow...