Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...increase in value of inventories since Labor Day. Last week the ordinarily sluggish Bureau of Labor Statistics' price index (which jumped at the outset of the war boom) dropped from 79.1 to 78.8. This was evidence of the pressure of surpluses, suggested that inventories have become a problem...
Things have come to a pretty pass in the Yard these days: the Freshmen's latest and biggest extra-curricular activity is worrying about how to run their extra-curricular activities. Tomorrow they'll be voting on this thorny problem: elected class officers, or appointments? Where there's smoke there's fire, and sure enough upon investigation this cockeyed situation reveals a basic paradox: only if and when the class votes thumbs down on elections, can they have any kind of elections they want. By all means, let the Yardlings have just what they want...
...ideas which the National Youth Administrator discussed so ably could hardly have seemed novel or radical to any one who has listened to President Conant's theories of education--or who is at all familiar with what Thomas Jefferson believed. Though they differ on the practical problem of how to pay for that education, Tom, Jim, and Aubrey are in surprising accord when it comes to the kind of schooling and the type of student they think are ideal...
...Williams puts up a brief for public scholarship assistance. The Jeffersonian notion is thoroughly outmoded, and the President's faith in the adequacy of private funds is also no longer tenable--his own annual pleas for scholarship funds growing more and more urgent as continued economic distress makes the problem increasingly acute. Willy nilly, educators must turn to the federal government for financial assistance, if they are to put into practice, now, the Jefferson-Conant-Williams ideas of educational opportunity. That is where N. Y. A. comes...
Though Mr. Rodriguez is somewhat dramatic about the problem, he has presented the issues of which everyone interested in the future of our music ought to be aware...