Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried to explain the vanishing art: "You start with a detailed charcoal drawing and then paint over that-the most distant thing first. If there are no clouds, the sky may take no more than a day. The distant figures may be done in a week. It gets more difficult as you approach the foreground-a large canvas may take four to six months altogether- but the most economical way is to finish as you go. At least that's what / was taught...
Four victories to one loss is a good record, but the Freshman stickmen will have a difficult time maintaining their winning percentage against the Dartmouth '51 squad today. An especial disadvantage to the Yardlings is the holding of the Freshman Jubilee this weekend, which means that many of the players will not arrive in Hanover until late this morning...
...have depth and prowess in their reserves. Along with Yale and Princeton who usher out the season in the middle of May, they will have history and the guesses of ouija specialists on their side when they cock their racquets for the Crimson, and it is difficult to tell whether the team's and Barnaby's optimism includes victories over these three teams, or whether they only seek a moral victory for the underdog Crimson...
...regular course load at the same time he should be busy with research. This is clearly recognized in fields which have tutorial, where the honors candidate may obtain course credit for taking tutorial. In fields where there is no tutorial, the work of producing a thesis is even more difficult, because of the lack of guidance for the student until he gets an adviser in his Senior year. The Faculty would do well to take such factors into consideration before dropping such an important aid to serious scholarship as the thesis course for honors...
...assisting various activities. Obviously we can not subsidize the Band unless we are also willing to subsidize the Glee Club and the Debating Council and the Polo Team and the Orchestra and the Dramatic Society and the Advocate and possibly the HYD or even the Lampoon. It might be difficult to decide whether the HYD or the Lampoon were more worthy of University financial support. At any rate, opinions would differ. Furthermore, if the University subsidized an organization, it would have to supervise its expenditures and activities, a job which we are not anxious to undertake...