Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...means of these cards, whenever they have any items of news, or can put us on the track of any. Events of interest to the college at large are constantly coming to the knowledge of these men. It is impossible for us to know everything that is happening, and difficult to know just when to look for things that we expect. We ask men who have the means of knowing to communicate with us. With their cooperation we can get more news for the CRIMSON and make it more representative and more accurate...
...rather than accurate knowledge of some special topic. He must be inexperienced in lecturing, conducting recitations and answering questions, and in judging of a student's work. He cannot command the confidence of the men he is teaching. It seems ill advised to place such a man in the difficult position of instructor over a large course. If it is necessary to give entire charge of any courses to instructors ouside of the faculty, Harvard ought to be able to secure experienced teachers for lower positions as well as for professorships. It certainly does not raise the dignity...
...were widely known that it is not difficult for a student to take the present academic course in three years, would not most of this cry for a shorter course cease? A very large proportion of men take some additional courses beyond the required amount, merely for the benefit of the courses. More and more every year take the four years work in three. The fact that half a-dozen of these three year men will this year be awarded summa cum or magna cum degrees, and have at the same time been actively connected with college papers or athletics...
From anything so lovely it is difficult to make selection of loveliness. The whole poem is a succession of exquisite pictures and images, where such lines as these...
...question of a life vocation is a perplexing one to the vast majority of college men. The field is so large and requirements so varied that it is indeed difficult to make a decision. Advice such as we may expect to receive in this course, coming as it does from men who have been successful in the vocations which they are to describe, ought to be of the greatest value. The lectures ought certainly to be largely attended...