Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshman who fall'28 receive an arbitrary 75 on their English entrance examination are forced to take an additional course, English A-1, without credit. Since the majority of men who find the first year difficult are in this group, this means that the poor student must take five courses while their mental superiors only take four...
...Arts without having to temper his activities to the requirements of his surroundings. But naturally there is very little chance of making such a career self-supporting. In some way his work has to be endowed either by the foundations or through private subsidy. Such support is more than difficult to obtain and rarely given over any long period of time. Usually a compromise has to be made and so the pure scholar devotes a certain amount of time to teaching in order to make both ends meet. The result is, more often than not, disastrous. A man whose main...
...rich patrons who usually make up his board of directors. He must, therefore, cater to these people, and with the money thus placed at his disposal, (usually with innumerable strings attached) he tries to maintain in the execution of his tasks not too unpopular quality standards. A difficult...
...Austen commends the King's "quiet devotion to duty," and one must agree, rejoicing that he has been sensible enough to present the King as a good man in a difficult position, and has not attempted the unreal figure of a Colossus dwarfing the men of his time...
...CRIMSON is just as bored as everyone else with the apparent triteness of discussions involving teaching and scholarship. Yet a search for different words, under which to disguise this controversy, is just as difficult as locating Whistler's father. In considering this problem as it arises in the Freshman year, one is forced to use these words not once but a dozen times...