Word: problems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...club "for the study of the liquor problem" has been organized with the following officers who will serve for the remainder of the year: President, W. E. Benscoter '02; secretary and treasurer, H. M. Borthwick '03. The club is not connected with any other organization and is not predisposed in favor of any particular method for the solution of the liquor problem; it is to be in the nature of a seminary to consider the subject impartially. Meetings will be held in Brooks House on the first and third Monday evenings of each month at 7 o'clock...
...enrolment now is 195. The average attendance at the weekly prayer meetings has been somewhat greater than it was last year, but at the same time, the larger part of this increase must be accounted for by the number of well-known visitors who have addressed the meetings; the problem of making the meetings conducted solely by college men interesting and effective is yet to be solved...
...author can play equally well upon his reader's feelings if he can discover a new corner of the earth or illumine any great human problem. In this way many readers take up Mrs. Wilkins for New England scenes, J. M. Barrie for Scotch peasant life or Stephen Crane for the field of battle. On the whole the short story offers greater opportunities for a young writer than the novel. In the short story one may be didactic and yet not wearisome, and then the short story can pose problems and leave them unanswered. Now the novelists George Sand Dickens...
...vice-president of the C. S. M. A.; 'Life work--the Student's Decision," by Mr. Robert E. Speer; "Mission Study," by Mr. Harlan P. Beach, Educational Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement; "The Negro of the South," by Rev. A. B. Hunter of Raleigh, N. C.; "The Chinese Problem," by Rev. R. K. Massie; "Our Work in China," by Rev. D. T. Huntington; and "How the Brotherhood Man can Help the Church's Mission Work," Mr. Silas McBee, Chairman of the brotherhood of St. Andrew...
...problem of supplying credit facilities to agricultural classes, with special reference to branch banks and banks of issue...