Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Chemical Colloquium. "The Problem of Volume in Physiology," by Professor L. J. Henderson. Coolidge Memorial Laboratory...
...report to the college authorities or voluntarily withdraw from participation in college athletics. Some of the eastern college, notably Brown University, have been permitting summer baseball in a restricted from and this plan will probably be proposed at the meeting next week, as the real solution of the problem. But that it will meet with strong opposition from most of the college is practically certain and little can be expected to come...
...from trying to prevent the education of men without means, the University, with its host of stipend-bearing scholarships, makes the problem easier than anywhere else in America. Harvard, realizing that maximum influence and virility require universality, wishes to represent all strata and all sections. By no means is it the stronghold of a class. Unfortunately education presupposes standards, and these unpleasantly exclude many; there is the further need of charging tuition to defray about a fourth of a student's academic expenses. Some minds evidently are still so limited as to see class exclusion in these ineradicable necessities...
...general lesson of the year is that the running attack is at last firmly grounded and developed, despite the gloomy prophecies of three years ago that touchdowns were now impossible between fairly matched teams. To be sure, the problem is squarely up to the quarterback. He must not only have the plays but also the brains to use them. Each game is a problem in itself. With a heavy team having great endurance he may count on their coming harder and faster straight through. If his attack is based largely on speed and deception, he must make his scoring bids...
...another extract Mr. Angell gives attention to War. "What is the problem of War?" he writes. "Why do nations give their first care to the preparedness for it? To defend themselves. But that means that someone believes in attack; otherwise, if no one believed in the effectiveness of successful attack, none of us would be threatened, and the whole problem would be solved...