Word: problems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Seymour's Report, however, seems to indicate that Yale, like Harvard, has closed her eyes to such a method of solving the tenure problem. This move is unfortunate not only in itself but because it furthers a policy made fashionable by Harvard. Strict adherence to actuarial tables as a criterion for appointments is scarcely in line with giving the best possible education available. No extensions of the budget are necessary to raise the level of instruction. The difficulty can be circumvented by a change in the inflexible promotion policy...
...Poland emerged from the World War a runied nation," Count Potocki said. Its problem was to change a battlefield into a well-run and firmly established country. Taking the problem of education as an example of Polish progress, the Polish Ambassador told how illiteracy had been reduced from 40% to 18%, with educational facilities provided for everyone of school...
...present the Hygiene Department is working on an experiment which should be invaluable in removing some of the ignorance which envelops our present knowledge of this problem...
...many problems forced upon the United States by the present European conflict, one of the most important is an educational problem--What shall the schools teach about the war? This question cannot be solved by the method adopted by certain New York schools; there teachers were forbidden to speak about the war. The Graduate School of Education recently held a meeting of schoolmen to discuss the problem more fully. The results of this conclave have meaning for teacher and student alike...
...seems doubtful if this theory is an adequate approach to the problem. America faces a difficult job in staying neutral, and the teaching of pro-Allied interpretations of the war will not help. If America is to stay calm in the face of foreign fire, it would do well to go on teaching both sides of the question as it has in the past. Contrary to some belief, there still are two sides...