Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...compulsory universal military training for America" because the "logic of events drives us remorselessly to this conclusion." Their bombshell was followed over the week-end by speeches and resolutions of interventionist groups praising the proposal to the skies. For most persons the question of conscription has crystallized the whole problem of preparedness--when and for what--and must be thoroughly investigated before a decision is reached. Such an extreme change in American living cannot be hysterically rubber-stamped. The crux of the decision pro or con compulsory military training rests on the belief as to Hitler's future intentions...
Your editorial of June seventh states that Music 1 has solved the problem of the Freshman Reviews by appointing to give them a graduate student who, since he is not connected with the course and does not know the contents of the examination, "has been able to stress without compunction what he considers to be the high points of the course...
...Gilboy found that the relief problem is probably "permanent;" that the majority of persons applying for work relief are not "ne'er-de-wells," but ordinarily hard-working people who were able to support themselves before depression unemployment set in. That the unemployed put off applying for work relief as long as possible, exhausting all resources and going heavily into debt; that far from living in luxury on the relief rolls, work relief families have been poorly fed, clothed and housed, with income running well below the minimum standards established by the relief authorities; that the average debt of families...
...Massachusetts relief problem is unusually severe, and is "of long-time rather than short-time significance" due to the fact that "New England in general, and Massachusetts in particular, may be looked upon as a region economically past its prime," Dr. Gilboy said...
Here perhaps is the answer to Harvard's problem of providing prefinal reviews. In conjunction with the various department heads and the Bureau of Supervisors, University Hall might well appoint graduate students to give the Union reviews. If necessary, it might remunerate their efforts. Certainly the demand for competent course reviews is a legitimate one--and one that the University cannot afford to over-look...