Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last night. He expressed his absolute conviction that the Senior dormitories present the most obvious means for the democratization of Harvard; and democracy, he declared, is a primer requisite if Harvard is to be known from coast to coast as the great national university of the country. The great problem that the dormitories have solved is how to bring together the three types of men in the University, the complacent, provincial, and conscious, private school man, the reticent middle-class man, and the struggling, and sometimes bitter man, who works his way through college. The dormitory plan offers that opportunity...
...Sayre '16 found public ownership successful in the highest degree. The highly centralized government of France has alone enabled her to solve a very difficult problem...
...requesting of them their views on a very important question, namely, the value of a college training in preparation for the work of after life. The investigator who is studying this question for the Outlook has at least done more than others, who have attempted to examine the same problem, by reverting to the original courses of information to secure material for his thesis. Generally, it is no exaggeration to say, the investigators accept hearsay evidence or base their statements on the actions of a few students seen sowing their wild oats in the unfertile fields of artificial light...
...institution with the hope of inducing more men to join. A great deal of the criticism that has been passed on the Union is unjust, but it is admitted by everyone that there is room for improvement. To make the Union what it should be is a problem, the solution of which rests primarily with the undergraduates; the alumni have done their part. The greatest difficulty in managing the Union has been in finding out just what the student body wants. Opinion is very strong on the subject, but heretofore there has been no means of bringing...
...been the object of comment and criticism which in the main has been merely unsupported individual opinion. The fact, however, of this criticism proves strikingly what has long been realized--that, as the Harvard Union is a great opportunity for Harvard students, so too, is it a great problem. The Union stands today as the greatest material tribute to college democracy in the country and it is the problem which the students of Harvard University are in duty bound to solve, to discover the means whereby the great opportunities embodied in the Union may be used most effectively...