Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When the University prohibited students, under penalty of "disciplinary action," from attending any of the Square cram schools it insured the ultimate demise of a racket which in the past ten years has materially lowered the prestige of a Harvard degree. It also recreated a problem which must not be overlooked. For partly behind the growth of the outlawed tutoring schools was a legitimate educational need--that of organized pre-final reviews. Not all the students who in the past attended commercial reviews did so in order to get crammed with facts they were too lazy to learn for themselves...
Music 1 this year has solved the problem admirably. By appointing a graduate student, not connected with the course, to give reviews it has avoided the usual pitfalls. This tutor, not knowing the contents of the exam, has been able to stress without compunction what he considers to be the high points of the course...
...Haldane's new book of essays, previously published in England under the title of "Keeping Cool," takes up scientific and social problems from a point of view which cannot allow any segregation of the two. Professor Haldane's career as a scientist has been remarkable, both in its scientific and non-scientific aspects; he gave aid to the Spanish Loyalist Government as a consultant in the problem of gas attacks, and as a lecturer in Britain; he has been a consistent fighter against Fascism, at home and abroad; and he is the last man of research who has resisted evacuation...
...laconic sentence the German Ambassador to Japan, Major General Eugen Ott, last week set a temporary limit to German war aims and gave Japanese jingoes an encouraging pinch in the backside. The German Government, General Ott told Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, "is not interested in the problem of The Netherlands Indies...
Beef preserved in glass or tins is a chemical achievement. When the U. S. entered World War I, the problem of getting food across the Atlantic was as important as shipping men and arms. Meats were smoked, beef was boned, vegetables were dehydrated, vinegar was concentrated, fruits were dried, coffee was condensed into soluble cubes. A billion tin cans paved the way to France for the A. E. F. The job was done so well that U. S. soldiers gained in weight an average 12 lb. a man. These and many more facts are pointed out in Chemistry in Warfare...