Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first head of Harvard College was fired largely because he served poor food. Around 1800 food battles became so violent that the University had to abandon the idea of a common table. In 1926 Dean C. N. Greenough said he would welcome suggestions on how to solve the "food problem." Last year Dean Bender asked the Student Council to conduct a poll on what students thought of the food. Throughout this 300 year history of food problems many changes in the dining system occurred, always whenever protests became widespread and proved to be well founded...
...membership rules-requiring 100 percent Harvard members and thus excluding Radcliffe girls--have in part been this Radcliffe problem. Another manifestation of this problem can be found in the Dean's Office assertion that it has the right to regulate Radcliffe non-members working for Harvard groups...
Thus the Dean's Office, because of its fear of merger of Harvard-Radcliffe student activities, has limited the students' own freedom of decision on the problem. Its pattern of action is identical to that shown by its reactions to the problem of post-war political tensions, bad debts, and public relations...
Parking a Problem...
President Truman's Point Four, which provides for aid to backward parts of the world, can be carried too far, John Fletcher-Cooke, British delegate to the United Nations, said at last night's Dunster Forum on "The Problem of the Emergent Peoples...