Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before the abolishment of the caliphate in Turkey, our religion and our conscience kept us away from liquor. Now the law forbids the Turks to imbibe, but we can get the stuff if we want on the sly. But the problem of bad, poisonous alcohol is just the same as in the United States. I will say, though, that the idea inherent in a Turk for centuries that he shall not drink or gamble because his religion so demands, still persists. He believes that drink leads toward degeneration of his race. His religion works for higher ideals, as any creed...
...their various children. You see it is French, and very little has apparently been done to ease the shock on staid Manhattan nerves. So staid, indeed, are these nerves that the shock will perhaps pass unnoticed. Embers is not a spectacular show; it is just a pretty good Paris problem, more picturesquely solved than usual...
...tutorial system, as at present organized, becomes apparent. Tutors are, for the most part, young men. The natural enthusiasms of young men and their capacity for sympathetic understanding of students often makes them the best agents to effect the needful awakening. But once this is accomplished, a new problem arises...
When the student is once awakened, then more than ever he needs guidance by a mature mind. Then the services of professors as tutors become more than desirable. The Department of Mathematics, the most recent to adopt the tutorial system, has, in recognizing this problem, surpassed the other departments by providing that each professor shall also be a tutor. It is to be hoped that this provision will soon be universal. Only by such cooperation of tutors and professors will the tutorial system achieve its greatest usefulness...
...fold utility which is aimed at in the new structure has presented a special problem of construction differing from that employed in the building of an ordinary museum. The proper correlation of the teaching and exhibition functions has been carefully studied and will be embodied in many individual features. (Professor M. R. Rogers '15, of Smith college, has been associated with Edward W. Forbes '95, Director of the Fogg Art Museum, and Professor P. J. Sachs '00 and Professor Arthur Pope, officials of the Fogg Art Museum, in working out the details of fitting the new structure to the wants...