Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaking for myself, I am delighted that the San Francisco church doesn't want him." In San Francisco the real loser in the battle, Bishop Parsons, mounted the pulpit of rectorless Trinity Church, spoke mystically. Said he: "He brought a fine Christian spirit to a very difficult situation in San Francisco. At my invitation he came, he saw and-in a deep sense-he conquered. . . . Out of this tragic occurrence will grow a stronger, more united church. We must be sane and not blind our eyes to the fact that we are undergoing a great change...
...graduation they will face a world where competition is keener and the easier opportunities fewer than at any time in the last forty years." The general tone of the address, however, made in celebration of Chicago University's Forty-third Anniversary, was optimistic. True easier opportunities were fewer, but difficult opportunities made up for them, and the student realization of their situation, in the meanwhile, made them "knuckle down to the business of education" and infused them with a "new seriousness and a new industry...
...matter of fact, the difficult, challenging opportunities which means a lifetime of effort, opportunities for creative business, opportunities for the start of a full, useful, and successful life. Easy opportunities abound. Three hundred and twenty-eight graduates of M. I. T., Northeastern, Tufts, and Harvard, have been employed by the State of Massachusetts for the last twenty months. They are occupied in making a "control survey" of the state, establishing latitudes, longitudes, and elevations in 175 cities and towns. No matter how worth-while the project from the point of view of Pure Science, that kind of employment is wasteful...
Kelly enters his position in unique and difficult circumstances. But into his newly asumed duties he carries both the pledged cooperation of his predecessor and the confidence of the student body...
That an instructor teaches well in class does not necessarily imply that he is a good tutor. In fact it is extraordinarily difficult to ascertain how good a tutor a man will be until one has to work with him. Here one faces the difficulty of having to change a tutor whom one likes but with whom one cannot work properly. The tendency will be to avoid the problem until the situation becomes critical. However, careful thought in the first place on the selection of a tutor greatly increases the probability of a correct choice The freshman should see that...