Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from exploring the educational solemnities of this marine innovation. Mrs. Greene takes her delight in its practical arrangements and curious statistics. For instance, economy in ship space makes the location of the library a ticklish problem. The passengers' smoking room has been found a poor place because the passengers inevitably borrow the books. While the lower gyro room, as the Scotchman said, is "way down, ye know". Resort is usually had to the working alleway although narrowness bothers here. The librarian has to be a man whose profane tasks are not too arduous and one for whom the printed page...
...publication of the Register today, more than two months after necessity required its appearance, presents an old problem again and discredits a new solution. Two years ago the Student Council, in response to an obviously unsatisfactory situation, abolished the undergraduate board and placed the Register in the hands of a professional editor. The first year of the new plan saw the Register issued on December 18, an improvement, even if slight, over old conditions. This year the relapse to the accustomed delay brings the problem back again, more aggravated than before...
While it is possible that certain of the more conscientious Maroons may take the official schedule seriously, it is to be suspected that the more effective attack on the problem is from the opposite angle. If standards of work are made sufficiently high and student interest in attaining them sufficiently stimulated, hours of study will probably take care of themselves...
Such a row of dead republics (for Italy and Spain are really that) is startling to the votaries of government by the people. In these southern lands, popularly elected representatives are apparently incapable of wrestling with the problem of a critical period. Latin temperaments are ill-fitted to serve the causes of democracy. The political machinery of Mediterranean capitals grinds much less easily without the lubrication of fear, or admiration, to drive it forward. It is hard for the American, accustomed to a Congress, plodding undisturbed, to picture the torments of a Republican government in Southern Europe with...
...following the course of the inquiry with anxious interest and I am hopeful that the task of my commissioners will be lightened by ungrudging and single-hearted effort on the part of all concerned to find a solution for the problems of this great and vital industry." In conclusion a host of minor internal affairs were touched upon. These included the Wembley Exposition, the housing situation, the unemployment problem...