Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outgrowth of the old pounding races (follow-the-leader on horseback), a Maryland institution started by daring young fox hunters in the 18th Century, the Maryland Hunt-four miles over 22 timber fences, some almost five feet high-is considered by most horsemen who have ridden both courses more difficult than the world-famed Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England. Aintree's thorn hedges, through which a horse can brush without falling, are a pleasure, they say, compared to Maryland's rail fences, which are as stout and rigid as telegraph poles...
...lower end lies under 7,500 ft. of Atlantic Ocean. One theory has it that submarine canyons were cut during the Glacial Age by surface rivers. This could have occurred only if the sea level was then nearly two miles lower than it is now - a presumption difficult to account for, even allowing for water drawn into the great Glacial Age ice sheets. Geologist Douglas Johnson of Columbia University last week announced an easier explanation: "sapping" by submerged springs. The Glacial Age rivers deposited great masses of sediment on the sea floor; water was forced through the sediment by hardening...
Psychologically it would be difficult, if not impossible, for the professional philosopher and friend to work toward the same ends as the University. The least his paying guests could ask would be passing grades, and in their natural conflict with "the system" he would tend inevitably to said with them. And should a beautiful friendship really evolve, he would not be bound by the ethical restrictions of faculty members...
...difficult, however, to see how the University will be able to hold students to next year's room contracts signed before the meal rate rise. Approximately half of this year's Freshman class are on some sort of scholarship or doing some sort of work toward room and board. On the ten and fourteen meal contracts the new rates are more than double outside restaurants, and on the twenty one meal contracts they are still exorbitantly high. It may well be doubted if the dining halls are being run on a reasonable basis from the students' point of view. Cleveland...
History I was singled out from the list of courses in which Freshmen tutor as the largest course in college with over 400 Yardlings enrolled. It also provoked the greatest number of objections on the grounds that "the handling or subject matter of the course was abnormally difficult and thus induced tutoring...