Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There can be no dispute about the ineffectual training with which the average freshman enters college. "Adequate preparation," is indeed vitally necessary. The very existence of rigid examinations, however, makes this preparation more difficult by emphasizing the value of a passing grade rather than of genuine education. Since this is true, some substitute for the present system must be evolved...
...fluctuations of enrollment and wealth account for the inconvenience to this fraction of the undergraduate body, they do not prevent an attempt to remedy the situation. To allow upper class residents of these halls house privileges should not be difficult, for in number they are few, and as Freshmen they had many acquaintances among present House residents. An assignment of seven to each House would provide for the entire group with little trouble, and would go far to right the present injustice...
...eating high off the hog until the nation's Press demands a look at the original. In desperation they dust off and beautify a love-loving chambermaid to fill their need. As the chambermaid happens to be impersonated by that sultry siren, Dorothy Hall, their task is not as difficult as it sounds. By the time the curtain falls, Messrs. Dunning and Schrank have ruthlessly kidded every metropolitan institution from the Brooklyn Eagle to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
...sending you this memorandum in order that there may be no misunderstanding regarding the rather difficult situation which you may face if you are planning to seek admission to a medical school...
...above facts explain," President McConaughy, a tolerant Congregationalist at the head of a tolerant Methodist college, went on to elaborate, "why it is difficult for Wesleyan to place her graduates of the Jewish race in medical schools. It should be apparent that in selecting its freshmen each medical school will feel some degree of responsibility for the graduates of the institution with which it is associated, and it therefore is impelled to accept the promising applicants within its own borders. It is now quite generally admitted that, after that selection has been made, very little room is left for Jewish...