Word: problems
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...problem of Telegraphing without the use of wires...
...expression. The first requisite is (as Mrs. Glasse says in her receipt for jugged hare-first catch your hare) to catch your thought or feeling as the case may be, perhaps I ought rather to say be caught by it. Let that be honest, manly and sincere. Then the problem is, like that of the girl with the water jar, to bring it home to your reader without spilling over. Now the study of literature is in great measure a study of style, and this if followed on true principles will react upon the character-will make us less tolerant...
...emphasize the notice which asks for information in regard to student dining clubs. The information is desired by men interested in solving the problem which the over-crowded condition of Memorial Hall presents...
...undertaking by the University itself. It is said that the business now carried on by the University authorities is immense, and that the addition to this of the complicated management of a new dining-hall would be unwise. It is advocated that private enterprise be allowed to solve the problem of giving food to those students who cannot be accommodated in Memorial, just as private enterprise now affords rooms for such students as do not secure them in the University dormitories...
...into account both these truths,- that accommodations ought to be given to the greatest practicable number, but that accommodations should include not only the possibility of eating food, but also the privilege of eating it with friends and without hurry. We believe that, in the case of the present problem, a compromise between the two plans mentioned would bring about the desired result. The general tables might well be continued with the proposed reduction in the number of students there, but, instead of reducing the total number in the hall, the number at each club table could be raised from...