Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utility empire to give them an apparent value far above their real value. For 23 court days the prosecution and its corps of expert accountants wrestled with the problem of demonstrating to judge and jurors the financial intricacies of the Insull collapse. That job proved to be even more difficult than the long task of chasing Mr. Insull up & down the Aegean and practically shanghaiing him back to the U. S. for trial (TIME...
...tradition of thoroughness which is unknown in England outside the sciences. But why are Americans so anxious to organize things? External organization extends from one's first registration under an incubus of forms, through work, exams, even sport, until the Ph.D. is safely landed. Because spontaneity is rendered difficult I doubt the claim that the system at least assures to the second rate man an adequate education. But if the sincerity and thoroughness of Harvard can be allied with the faith that allows the fullest, individual initiative, I believe the future of American scholarship will be unexcelled anywhere...
...seem to fear that such action by university professors may be excessively "difficult" and "dangerous." I can assure you from my own experience that such fears are exaggerated. I refer you to the case of the Charlestown rioters, so-called, recently before the courts of this state. Commenting on that case in an editorial which you published on May 18th last, you said: "Any nation espousing a belief in freedom of speech will not submit to a subjugation of it under the tattoo of horses' hoofs. The brutality and officiousness demonstrated yesterday are to be deplored...
Those, who realize that they are watching history take shape, will find it difficult to estimate the relative importance of the forces which gave the New Deal such an overwhelming victory at the polls on Tuesday. The personal popularity of the President was not enough. Neither can one say blithely that the political use of relief rolls was the only cause...
While such an attitude is doubtless admirable for its liberality, the difficulties consequent upon its practice are obvious. Under the policy Professor Holcombe advocates, universities would be faced with the difficult and dangerous task of deciding when students have kept "within the law." This task is in no sense fitting to a university, which cannot be considered a competent judge of legal matters. More important, however, is the fact that a student's activities outside the campus are solely his own affair. If he chooses to run the risk of participating in violent demonstrations on questions political or otherwise...