Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students who contemplate hitchhiking south over the New Jersey Turnpike this vacation may find the task difficult...
...agree, also, that we must not approach the difficult national problem of greatly increased numbers wanting higher education in the next generation in any narrow, provincial or selfish spirit. We have a profound concern as citizens and as members of a university community with the kind of education the coming generation will have, and we have an obligation to the nation and to Harvard to do our full duty. But what is our duty? Here Harvard men will disagree, as usual...
...individual student. The bigger we get, beyond a certain size, the more we lose the sense of the whole, the more we retreat into our specialties, our departmentalizes, our little personal refuges, the harder it is to maintain any sense of unity, of follow ship, of community, the more difficult it will be for the single human being in his full individuality, the Harvard man, old-style, to count. We turn things over to the IBM machines and the formulas...
...fifteen years there will be a terrific shortage of college teachers. It will be a seller's market for them and anyone who meets even the minimum qualifications for teaching at Harvard will have better offers elsewhere. Just as serious, for the same reason it will be far more difficult than at present to keep the best and most experienced of our junior faculty, the Instructors and Assistant Professors. Who then will staff our Sections and provide tutorial instruction and man the Houses and teach elementary language courses and General Education...
...dividing his land among seven heirs, two of whom live in Ireland, the previous owner of 39 Cowperthwaite Street has made his entailed house a difficult thing to buy. This plot is one of the three privately owned properties left in the western end of the block between Dunster and Leverett Houses...