Word: problems
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Early in September, when the coaching staff faced the material for the 1915 University football team, there arose a problem vastly different from that to be solved last year. Unlike the candidates for Captain Brickley's eleven, the men who reported to Captain Mahan were for the most part very inexperienced, comparatively untutored in the rudiments of the game. With an exceptionally stiff schedule ahead, then, the problem confronting Coach Haughton last September was quickly to whip an eleven into shape and at the same time to drill fundamentals into a "green" squad. A kind Providence has proved lenient...
...solution of the eternal problem of the choice of a vocation might be found for more men if the possibilities of South America were given more consideration. Argentine exports more corn than any other country and South America is the leading cattle raising region of the world. This vast agricultural territory is dependent mainly on foreign trade for its manufactures; and now that the war has interfered with Europe's monopoly of this market, an opportunity, much talked of but little appreciated, has been given to Americans to secure a foothold...
...that adequate steps should be taken for the improvement of our military position. With the theories of all the different methods of modern warfare being proved day by day across the water, we as spectators surely have an enviable opportunity to profit by their experience in settling our serious problem of unpreparedness...
...statesmen at Washington are now at work on plans for national defense, but they are not the only ones able to help in this problem. Within the precincts of the University lies an opportunity for aiding the government. The conduct of war with its recent developments is largely an economic and financial problem of which the military side is merely incidental. Glaringly evident is the significance of intellectual effort on the part of officers in a modern army...
...weekly meeting of the Christian Association will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow morning at 9.45 o'clock. W. W. Webster '18 will lead the discussion on "Christianity and the Labor Problem...