Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last year to three* (one in Mississippi, two in Florida, none for rape). These descending figures seemed to point the moral that if Congress lets right-thinking Southern whites alone, they can work their dark problem down to zero...
Francis Taylor's predecessor as director of the Metropolitan, famed Egyptologist Herbert Eustis Winlock, resigned last April because of ill health. When he tackles the job next May, Director Taylor will face many a knotty problem. Chief problem will be to regain some of the initiative the Metropolitan has lost to younger, less stodgy Manhattan museums, notably the Museum of Modern Art in its shiny new blue glass home (TIME, May 22). There, instead of at the Metropolitan, will open next week the show of Renaissance masterpieces which Italy sent last year to the San Francisco Fair. Another poser...
With Saradjeff gone there was the problem of finding someone to play the bells. For a while tow professors from Columbia and Smith alternated on successive Sundays (in those days the bells were played every week, if not more often). Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Classics and History, and at that time head tutor of Lowell House, who had acquired a penchant for playing the bells, performed between times when occasions arose on which it was deemed fitting for the bells to be rung...
Though emphasizing the content of education, the Council does not overlook the problem of the method of education. Harvard's peculiar contribution to college teaching methods is the tutorial system. Fearing that tutorial instruction may pass from the Harvard scene, the Council proposes to make it a regular part of the education of every...
...YOUNG-Josephine Lawrence-Little, Brown ($2.50). The Newark, N. J. newspaperwoman who wrote If I Have Four Apples (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) reels off another post-Depression problem story, this time concerning the plight of a manicurist who supports a jobless father and brother, needs love, finds it only among young men who regard her family as too much of liability. In Josephine Lawrence's appealing fiction the rules of composition are observed ("he said" and "she said" correctly varied) and the plot goes merrily as the wedding bell her heroine would like to hear. If the writing were...