Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Concerning this dropped Freshmen the percentage has risen because the requirements have been made more difficult. Instead of two D's and two C's, three C's are now necessary to got into the Sophomore Class. The figures give definite indication that the grades are steadily increasing. In 1928 14.1 percent of the entire college were doing unsatisfactory work. Now only 8 percent are falling...
...reserves the right to intervene in case of emergency. Through economic conditions Cuba is thoroughly ties up with the United States. In late years a great deal of money has been loaned to Cuba by the United States to help carry over the sugar industry, which has been in difficult circumstances and $120,000,000 alone was borrowed to build the road which now transverses the entire island. Thus Cuba feels more dependent upon the United States than appears on the surface, wholly because of the economic relations between the two countries...
...difficult to accept as logical or just a recent editorial on English 72. Nothing is more legitimate than editorial criticism of existing courses; indeed, it might be pointed out the Harvard CRIMSON, especially in its Student Vagabond, has performed a valuable service, on the side of eulogy, in calling the auditor's attention to stimulating lectures which otherwise he might have missed. On one occasion last autumn, the Vagabond, after confessing his own inability to enjoy Wordsworth, announced that Mr. Lowes would lecture on the gentleman that morning. No one who heard the superb analysis of the Westmoreland poet...
...most difficult problems of modern education was given consideration in the meeting of high school and preparatory school principals in Eliot House last Saturday. The need for correlating the work of preparatory schools and colleges was reemphasized. That twenty-five per cent of college freshmen have to leave college because of academic deficiency is sufficient proof of the maladjustment which has resulted from inadequate means of selecting candidates for admission to college...
...undergraduate member of English 72, I wish to express approval of your recent editorial on that course. It is very difficult to state exactly what would suit the needs and tastes of persons who are being introduced to romantic poetry. But certainly more generalities and less minutiae are necessary. As a specific example, I object to devoting six lectures to the discussion of which came first, Hyperion or the Vision of Hyperion, and spending no time on the poems...