Word: problems
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...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...
...Shaw says that further progress under present conditions is impossible; we must educate men to cope with the problem of a new social organization...
...Islands without the least regard to the wishes of the natives. Out of these conditions two questions arise: first, the question of right and the possibility of success; second, the method of escape from our position, in case our present policy is sure to fail. This is the Philippine problem...