Word: arduousness
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Cressman defended the ability of the parties to absorb young political activists. But he warned that "young people must expect a good long period of disappointment, frustration, and humiliation." It was a strength of the system that none came to power without "an arduous apprenticeship...
...They could, however, and probably should, draw up a sample program something like our present rules (but greatly decomplicated) to serve as a guide to student who ask what they should take in preparation for graduate school. They definitely should provide advice: the role of head tutor, though less arduous, would still be essential. A student could sign up for tutorial in any department, but naturally would not be required to do so. He, and the department, would also be spared the annoyance of filing concentrations and changes of same. The department could get rid of all those files...
Emoticnally disheartened after two consecutive one-goal losses, Harvard's slumping hockey team begins an arduous climb back to serious contention in the ECAC race tonight when it takes on unimpressive Army in the opening round of the two day Boston Garden Christmas Tournament...
...given his first birth, but an artist has to earn his second one. So arduous is this struggle, so embedded in a writer's marrow, that he almost always devotes one autobiographical work to it. Playwright Oliver Hailey's Who's Happy Now? may not be autobiographical, but it has the indelible sound of private experience. His play belongs among the most perceptive portrayals of the son-father relationship that have been brought to the stage. Its special quality is that it is an Oedipal farce, zany, effervescently comic and full of as many crazy laughs...
...Rosovsky Report envisioned that the undergraduate program would be a so-called "combined concentration." requiring work in both Afro-American Studies and another field, but when a tentative prospectus was issued in the second week of April, many black students objected to what they considered the unduly arduous requirements...