Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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With the publication of the first number of a bi-weekly newspaper this morning and the scheduling of the first of a series of talks on the problem of defense, for tomorrow night, the Student Defense League swings into high gear as the most articulate college pressure group...
...major problem in the life of the new paper is finance. As yet no funds except the dollar joining fee have been collected. With the advertising prospects not too good, it will depend largely on voluntary backing for its life. However, with the strength of the groups backing it, it does not seem likely that the paper will be still-born...
...went on to point out that the athletic endowment fund started in 1935 would eventually do away with the crux of the whole problem of "bigtime" football--gate receipts. This fund, which is being swelled every year through gifts by the University and alumni and by H.A.A. surpluses, has in five years passed the $400,000 mark and already yields $13,000 annually in interest...
This alumni body and this endowment are the decisive factors in settling the problem of the place of athletics in college. They mean that when the University needs a new library it doesn't have to depend on its football victories to gain its ends. They mean that it isn't the crowds at the Stadium that pay the Faculty its wages. And thanks to the alumni the H.A.A. is carefully hoarding a reserve athletic endowment, contributed over the last five years. Eventually the interest from this fund will be used to support the teams in the minor sports...
...problem of the objector on humanitarian or other non-religious grounds is not covered by the law, but it would seem proper for a citizen to set forth such non-religious objections when he files his questionnaire. There is much important hard work to be done for the public welfare in other fields besides military training; and I hope that the government will find it possible to use conscientious objectors of all sorts in such badly needed tasks, although the law itself does not give this privilege to non-religious objectors...