Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also commented on the Economics 1 section in Winthrop House. Insofar as House sections prove practical, we are prepared to extend this program to other houses. But there are problems of classrooms and hours and availability of an Economics 1 instructor in the house that may make this extension difficult. We are looking into the problem, first in our Economics 1 staff meeting and then in consultation with the masters and the Dean...
Considering the concert as a whole, I feel that Mr. Baldwin was far too severe: certainly the Debussy at least was not "musically unacceptable"--and it was performed after a minimum of rehearsal time. The Brahms, also, was not without merit: the piece is fiendishly difficult, with great rhythmic complexities and breathtaking high divisi passages in the strings which, except for some raggedness, came out with surprisingly good intonation; and the sudden rests, traps for any amateur orchestra, were for once clearly defined--which does not seem to indicate "imprecision" in Mr. Poto. I thought that the Brahms...
Freshmen suffer this most, says Wallace MacDonald '44, director of freshman scholarships. Adjustment to college is made more difficult, he says, by a feeling of frustration if the student cannot get good enough grades to please the host of outside observers pressuring him. University Hall asks for grades in freshman courses four times a year, and this intensifies the problem. Grades here may serve, asserts Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, director of University Heath Service, to "reactivate old conflicts" by emphasizing competition...
...student's discontent with the system, except for imprecision, is difficult to judge. He has no Committee on Educational Policy to express his grievances, and while the subject might possibly be treated in a Student Council report, it is probably too broad and involved for that group to handle...
Tutorial for credit and course reduction offer gradeless, relatively independent study for some students. The line between between them is vague, and it is difficult to assess the extent to which tutorial for credit suceeds when it is anything besides a thesis course. Not too many students avail themselves of this privilege, and it is not vigorously pushed by many departments...