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...decade after overcrowding first became a problem, Harvard still refuses to countenance reducing the numbers of tutors (and their broods) it lodges. Students who find themselves in less-than-spacious accommodations should ask themselves whether they benefit more from their resident tutors than they would from the rooms they occupy. It's an open question. BEN HELLER '94 New York, March...
March 24.--The Labor Problem...
...many interesting improvements may be built. The personnel of the contestants is chosen from a group of men who form the greatest fraternity in the world--a group which shoulder to shoulder faced the constant menace of hazardous flights over enemy territory and amid a thousand dangers. Their present problem is to convert their fellows to a recognition of their plans to create a college movement to help our national defense, which in the doing will assist to crown college aviation as the Peer of American college sports...
...stranger has been within our gates ever since our Republic was founded: For three-quarters of a century he has constituted one of our most urgent problems; but only of late has he begun to receive the attention which he deserves. The great danger is that we will attempt to solve our problem with the same suddenness with which we discovered its existence, and that we will fail to give the proper time to reflection as to the best means to be employed...
...fundamental problem, as Colonel Woods pointed out the other night at the Union, is to win the confidence and sympathy of the alien. The average native citizen is too apt to regard the alien as a being apart; and he is prone to work out his own plans for the alien's salvation, without knowing much about the workings of the alien's mind. But a man cannot be cured of his ills, either physical or mental, without his own consent and active assistance. If we are to solve the problem of the foreign-born population, it can only...