Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detail Dean Hanford said that "Now and then one hears complaints that with the increasing attention given to honors work and with the improvements in scholarship it has become more difficult for the student of average ability to remain in Harvard College. This conclusion is not borne out by the statistics regarding the number of students who do so poorly that their connection has to be severed...
...course a book of this nature is difficult to keep from falling into one definite pitfall, and it may probably be said that this one makes the stumble which few have escaped. Anything written today on a subject of this sort and in the manner of this book is frequently undertaken either consciously or unconsciously, from a standpoint of superiority. In other words the book is occupied with the business of proving how far we have advanced over the ridiculous actions of our ancestors, and especially our sentimental ones. One cannot help but receive the feeling while reading the book...
...difficulty of securing men properly equipped for such positions should not be overlooked. The very specialization that the innovation is designed to co-ordinate makes this task more difficult. Nevertheless, there are a few whose interests and training are sufficiently broad for the purpose. The exacting requirements of the appointments are accompanied by parallel advantages. The incumbents would be enabled to accomplish work of a pioneering character. For this reason it is possible that able men from other institutions would be attracted to Cambridge by the new professorships. Since the experiment is one conceived in a liberal spirit and designed...
After a visit to the Fine Arts this week, it is not difficult to understand why the National Board of Review has chosen "Man of Aran" as the outstanding picture of 1934. Robert Flaherty, that master of photography, again has travelled to one of the stranger portions of this earth and returned with scenes of nature--clouds, rocks, and sea--which are rivalled only by Eisenstch. Clouds, rocks, and sea--but mostly sea, calm, seemingly docile but cunning, the willing food-source for the Man of Aran--or roaring, raging, scaling cliffs, reaching out to engulf the whole of that...
...commission to do a portrait of Sir Joseph Gilbert which in turn brought him a commission from Sir Charles Lawes-Writtewronge. After that Frank Salisbury was made. Since then he has propped up his easel before so many of the world's potentates, that it is difficult to understand why he has never been knighted or admitted to the Royal Academy. He has painted King George six times...