Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Washington, it might have been difficult last week to scratch up an argument on such momentous subjects as H-bomb fallout or trade with Red China, but nearly every mother's son and every son's mother had an opinion about the case of an American soldier facing trial in a Japanese court. It was not the first time a G.I. faced trial in a foreign court, nor would it be the last. Nonetheless, this was the case that caught the public ear and prompted the rumbling of the Public Voice on Capitol Hill...
Just why the department then felt compelled to expose students to a specimen from each period is extremely difficult to say. Since they could hardly expect to expose him to all of the literature written in English in a mere four years, it was clear enough to him that they were aiming at directed selection. But why it was not likely that he should discover more in selections chosen by himself on the grounds of personal preference, this was hard...
...same ambiguity cut the other way, for the students best able to cope with the regular requirements were also allowed to dispense with them and get course reductions, tutorial for credit, and other special dispensations, while those who found courses extremely difficult to adapt to were not allowed to dispense with them, but continued to plug away at the media to which they were unsuited...
...question is largely one of a subjective attitude and a quantity of time which is difficult to measure. But in all, the professor's problem is largely that he wants to do too much rather than too little...
Hopefully the professor will be encouraged to improve his lectures and to spend more time with his undergraduates. He and his instructors and teaching fellows have not fully met the present demand. They will find it more difficult to meet the future situation unless they make a concerted and conscious attempt to solve present failings.ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, Jr., took a year off to write for Adlai Stevenson in the last campaign...