Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Board for a period of a year was tremendous in its scope, and invaluable to the City of New York for the future development of its educational system. In New York, there are 600,000 pupils enrolled in the public schools, and 18,000 people engaged in the problem of educating them. Consequently, an inquiry into the educational system would be of immense import...
Thoroughly as this number of the Illustrated covers the gymnasium problem, the reviewer doubts if it will attract the flippant undergraduate, or, for that matter the flippant graduate. Its illustrations are mostly unflattering snap-shots of the ugliest Harvard buildings. Altogether, the Illustrated suffers from over-specialization in photographs and expository articles. Its editors need illustrators, story-writers, verse-makers, whose work may set off articles like those of Dr. Williams and Mr. Parsons; and they ought to realize that pictures of Compressibility Machines, Seismographs, and Boylston Hall cannot liven any magazine which aims to be more spirited than...
...which President Eliot will preside, will take place, immediately after the morning meeting, in the Union and will be featured by several addresses. Of these that of Professor E. C. Moore, of Yale, on "Improvements in Educational Practice," and that of Professor C. F. Richardson, of Dartmouth, on "The Problem of Waste in the College Lecture" should be of especial interest. Professor Moore has made some very interesting investigations in educational conditions and it was his report on the New York schools which created such a profound impression and caused so much discomfort to municipal officials
Never before has the Harvard Debating Team had to face so serious a problem as that which confronts it this year in the matter of finances. As long as all undergraduate organizations representing Harvard were supported by general subscriptions, the Debating Team found it easy to defray its expenses in this manner. But since all the other organizations have been relieved of the necessity of calling upon the students to contribute to their support, the Debating Team has found an existence dependent upon student generosity very precarious. Some income is received from the Coolidge Fund, but it is far from...
...Social Problem Lecture by President Eliot, in New Lecture Hall...