Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...million of dollars and its population of 8000, has sprung up within the last 90 years, though its name has been honored for over three centuries. Bur about ten years ago this rate of growth suddenly began to fall, a fact bound to produce many a knotty problem of policy. President Conant has taken note of the common origin of these problems, and has offered some tentative gropings for a solution...
Although Mr. Conant has fully recognized this problem, his recommendations are vague: "Although we live in a world whose whole future seems uncertain, we must engage in long-range planning. . . . We cannot leave the future to take care of itself." Naturally Harvard must be as foresighted as possible, and not mistake the stagnant Forties for the roaring Twenties. But if "long-range planning" as envisaged by Mr. Conant involves any retardation of Harvard's present educational progress, it defeats its own purpose. For the quantity of endowments a university receives depends not only on economic conditions, but also...
...concert like this brings to one's mind the whole problem of program-planning. The complete dependence of the public on the executive artists in this matter puts these artists in a very difficult position. They are attacked on one hand for playing too many new and untried works, and on the other hand for being unsympathetic to anything but old favorites and hackneyed war-horses...
Whatever else one feels about this problem, one has a right to expect that a majority of the music in a symphony orchestra's concert will be substantial works which one can take seriously. Light works like Rossini's La Gazza Ladra and Tchaikovsky's Italian Caprice are expected occasionally, for they add a great deal to the attractiveness of a concert and serve as "breathers." However, when this type of music makes up half of a program, and the Reger variations weigh down the other half, one suspects that whoever planned the concert did not think much...
Wild pointed out that legally there is no problem at all. Russia and Finland have not declared war on each other, and we can send them any goods we wish...