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...still more in the financial problem the committee has arranged with a New York bank to buy the full number of francs on payment of 25 percent of the amount. The price will cover all traveling expenses, tuition fees, theatrical performances, accommodations and meals, and all tips except on the Atlantic voyage...
China's educational problem is enormous. A population of 400,000,000 would require, for an adequate public school system, not less than 2,000,000 teachers for all grades, and naturally this educational army cannot be developed over night. It will require at least a generation. When it is considered that China faces the dual task of simultaneous development of a representative form of government and the development of a public school system to form the foundation for such a government, and when we realize how closely these two are dependent one on the other, we see that...
Every year a large number of men come to Harvard with only vague ideas as to what sort of a place the University is, and with no friends, who do know, to tell them. The problem of becoming acquainted with the institution itself is, for such men, at best difficult. In the past they have had to go for information to two official publications, one a very condensed description of the University, and the other the cumbersome general catalogue. The first is altogether too meagre, and in the second what information can be found is buried in a mass...
...wonder if some of the attacks on the New York theatres may not have been founded on fact; the Actors Equity and the others in the movement must know what they are trying to eradicate. Granting, then, that all is not as it should be on the stage, the problem of remedy inevitably arises; and it is that which is stirring New York at present...
...problem this week is to adjust the rowing to the river and is of utmost importance especially for the Freshman crews which have not had any previous experience. It is also of importance as regards the choice of the first and second University crews, since the coaches will base a large part of their decisions on the ability shown by the various men in this first stage of the work on the river...