Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to say just what Penn will scratch off as it reappraises itself. Certainly not the fraternities, although possibly their restrictive clauses. Probably not the second-class status of its commuting multitudes, but possibly the low caste of coeds. Big time football is gone, and fraternity blasts are going fast...
...cessation of hostilities is a difficult problem, but a lasting agreement among the four nations seems next to impossible. Especially since the bombing of Cairo and the rupture of diplomatic relations, it is hard to imagine Nasser (or any Egyptian) sitting at the same conference table with any of the offenders. Something fantastically imaginative will be necessary to soften the rigidity of both sides. One possibility might be a meeting of leaders of the great powers in Cairo, as soon as it seems safe or feasible. We do not mean that President Eisenhower should float like Cleopatra down the Nile...
...therefore, when the Overseers appointed Henry Dunster as President of Harvard College in 1640. With Dunster came an effort to build a real college, "in the Oxford and Cambridge sense." But building required money in those days, just as it does now, and Dunster's task was made more difficult by a depression...
...Harvard became a university. The state Constitution of 1780 recognized it as such, and two years later Harvard actually attained that status by providing instruction in medicine. Conducting the Medical School in Cambridge was difficult because of lack of clinical facilities, however, so in 1810 the "Medical Institution of Harvard University" moved to Boston, where it is today...
...yesterday that "there is no reason why he can't squeak through" if only he could maintain the audience control he had in Los Angeles. And while he held the crowd just about as well last night and drew a cheering mob yesterday driving through Boston, this is a difficult matter for Stevenson, for his speeches frequently range from the compelling to the dismal...