Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the ranks of those who answered the postcards in the affirmative, P. B. H. has a nucleus of administrators for any program they may wish to undrtake. Now that the first step has been taken and the seed sown, the future success of the committee in solving the difficult problem of acclimation depends largely upon the wisdom of their subsequent program of action...
Some courses are easy and others are difficult. This is not hard to explain on impeccably logical grounds: for there are varying intricacies of subject material, and there are varying demands made by different teaching methods. But here, even as in supreme court decisions, there is a question of relativity. For when a course lies prostrate below a certain respectable minimum of simplicity, logical apologists are confounded. There is nothing to be done but to call the course a "snap...
Some courses, such as Chinese 10, are "snaps" because they are too easy. This is fairly obvious. Others, including Geography 31, are "snaps" because they are too difficult. This paradox resolves when it is understood that the examination questions (in, e.g. geography) are too complex to be answered by anyone short of a Van Loon. The professor, gazing sympathetically from his Olympia, recognizes this by giving generously...
...summer of 1929, Faulkner was back in Oxford, and his financial situation was getting desperate. He had written a brilliant, bitter, difficult book, The Sound and the Fury, which Publisher Harrison Smith assured him would not sell. He had married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote...
...short time ago one resident drove out as the caretaker raised the chain and shouted out the window terms deprecating the general practice of chains and referred to the caretaker in uncomplimentary terms. He disappeared in a cloud of exhaust, but since then it has become increasingly difficult to get the necessary permission, residents said...