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...prevent such a desertion is the task before the newly elected management. Merely urging men to join or to stay at the Hall will not solve the problem. What people want is a comfortable place to eat, satisfactory food, and a reasonable charge. We cannot believe that this is too much to expect and we earnestly hope that the new president and directors will discover the means...
President Eliot addressed the New England Country Church Association last evening in Tremont Temple on the problem of restoring to their former position of dignity and influence the rural churches of New England. Differences in creed have caused an increase in the number of churches, until none now hold a position of influence or are able to provide comfortable circumstances for their pastors. The problem of giving an influential position to a minister is largely analogous to doing the same for a teacher, which has been accomplished to a great extent by state support. This, however, is impossible...
...brief discussion of the educational problem the speaker said that in his own College days the curriculum was a mixed system allowing a few electives for the Junior and Senior years, but in the main the old prescribed system of study then prevailed. The majority of the Harvard men trained under the compulsory system, put a broad foundation under their culture, while they were able by improving opportunities which in after-life never came again to enter into wide fields of thought and knowledge, lying wholly outside of their special life-calling...
...problem is by no means an easy one, however, as it should be borne in mind that the fixed expenses are unusually heavy before the question of food enters into it at all. There is due the Corporation each year something over $14,000 in interest payments and in payment of the sinking fund. Then there are the heavy expenses of the large and cumbersome plant. It is a problem to serve board to 1200 and more people under these conditions at a price ranging from $4 to $5 a week and it is a reasonable question whether...
...meeting of the American Psychological Association in Baltimore on December 28 and 29, Professor Munsterberg will give an address on "The Field of Applied Psychology." On the following day he will deliver his presidential address before the American Philosophical Association on the subject of "The Problem of Beauty...