Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trusting instead of fearing, and the Dean's office became less a death cell and more a source of friendly counsel. He clasped the House plan to his heart and brought up Dunster with the care and patience of a successful father. Without him and Professor Coolidge a difficult educational experiment might easily have failed. His many executive contributions to the University, in addition to his fame as a teacher, place Professor Greenough alongside of Eliot, Kittredge, and other Harvard greats...
...here Walter Connolly is the big, blustering newspaper editor concerned with scoops and the glory of his profession. The whole is done in color--good color for the most part; and the composite result is a burlesque of New York which would be delightful satire were it not so difficult to exaggerate the idiocies of America's big city...
...undergraduate body has spoken; now it only remains up to the Athletic Committee to endorse the vote before the proposal becomes a fact. It is difficult to see what reasonable grounds there are for opposing the recommendations. The Student Council has acted well and has taken a big step toward the general recognition of swimming that it deserves in the East...
...trouble with this plan as expressed here is that it is too difficult to win a major letter. Men may be in the top ten of the country in their events and still be unable to earn the major "Y". For instance, this year Burns, topnotch Eli backstroker, is one of the six or seven best in the country, but because Princeton and Harvard happen to have equally outstanding backstrokers he may not earn a letter...
...royal road to history. He must be a father-confessor. He must be a patron saint. He must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere of gay camaraderie. This may possibly be difficult. There will be those who will prefer to glue on their vencer of culture with a brush of their own choosing, who will resent this invasion of an erst-while informal field...