Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loan, how much interest they want, and how to tailor each loan application to appeal to the loan-fund manager's personal preferences in collateral. For his services in introducing lender and borrower, Clark collects 1% of the gross proceeds of each loan. Sometimes, when an extraordinarily difficult piece of work is involved, he may raise his fee to 2% or more (the maximum: 5% of the amount of the loan). As a money finder he has done wonderfully well at finding money for himself. Worth more than $35 million, he has five cars, including a chauffered Rolls-Royce...
Roman Catholicism seems to be one of the least understood and most frequently misrepresented of religions, perhaps especially at Harvard. From the return of polls it is difficult to draw sweeping statistical generalizations on Catholic students. Only 23 Catholics, past and present, answered questionnaires; one of the 23 is a convert and the others were born Catholics. Of those, however, who were reared in a Catholic tradition, almost one fourth now declare themselves to be "agnostics" or "atheists." Another six retain formal affiliation with the Church but partially withhold intellectual assent or seem lax in their religious practices, though they...
...challenge" to their faith. One half of the staunch Catholics have never "reacted either partially or wholly" against the Church, but about an equal number affirm there was a time when their views "could fairly have been called 'agnostic' or 'atheistic.'" Generalizations for the Catholics at Harvard are thus difficult to draw...
Before examining the truth of the phrase "renascence," one must first note that it is really quite difficult to say that "Harvard," in the sense of Harvard students, is doing or believing or undergoing anything. Each assumption made from this random poll will be challenged by hundreds, and each analysis by a local minister will hold true for only a certain number of his congregants. Still, in some way Harvard men are more uniform than they pretend to be, and in their very refusal to be catalogued one finds a conformism to a Nietzschean standard of merciless analysis and criticism...
Reasons for this difference in attrition rates are not difficult to find, but it is nigh impossible to find a single explanation suitable for all cases. Catholics and Episcopalians have, of course, much more to bind them to their faith than Protestants with a weaker liturgical tradition which occupies a smaller part of their time. Several Episcopal students have attended the Congregational services in Mem Church and have returned praising the sermon, but shuddering at the "aridness" of the service. Those Anglicans who change their religion generally convert to Roman Catholicism, keeping the service but changing the philosophy...