Word: problems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...would come one week ahead of the game in New Haven, or two days sooner than it does under the present arrangement. This, I think, disposes of the chief prop on which the communication rested. There remains the conflict of the boat race and Phi Beta Kappa Day. That problem is still unsettled, and if enough Phi Beta Kappa men object to the conflict, the boat race might be put off till Friday. This would still gather all the Class Day and Commencement functions within less than a week...
...Monroe, of Boston, read a paper before the Educational Conference last evening on "The Moral Development of Boys in Secondary Schools." He spoke at length on the peculiar phases of this problem. The supreme aim of the school, he said, should be the moral training of the boy. Following the paper there was open discussion by members of the Conference. Hereafter the Conference will meet fortnightly on Thursday evenings...
...came in to Mr. George's office one night, crying, and asking for help because he had no place to sleep, nothing to eat and no money. Mr. George found he had wasted the money he had had, and told him therefore he must work out his own problem. Three things were open to him: to sleep under the barn, to give himself up at the police court as a vagrant, or to obtain credit at one of the lodging houses. This last alternative he chose, the next morning he went to work breaking rocks for a roadway; he supported...
...comparison with the University football team of last year, the eleven this fall is in a very undeveloped state. Since the beginning of the season, an unusually difficult problem has been encountered--that of forming a well-balanced, united team out of material which, on account of differences in coaching, experience and physical characteristics, seemed very poorly fitted for the purpose. Five of the players on the 1901 championship eleven returned as candidates, but the material for the vacant positions was unpromising, under-weighted and of a decidedly unaggressive nature. A temporary team was formed, which has, with allowance...
...Mathematical Conference. Hermite's Contribution to Mathematics, Mr. D. R. Curtiss. Fredholm's Method of Solving Dirichlet's Problem, Dr. C. N. Haskins. Sever...