Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grand Old Actor. The essence of history is hindsight, and it is difficult to read Schlesinger's account of labor's rise, e.g., the bitter, bloody Teamsters strike in Minneapolis, without reflecting on the monstrous extremes of power which the downtrodden of yesterday have reached. A future historian, not so solid as Schlesinger on the do-gooding glamour of it all. may yet weigh the memorable reforms accomplished by the New Deal against its ominous drive toward the welfare state...
Perkins also proposed that returning alumni be lodged, so far as is feasible, in their undergraduate Houses. Shultz termed this "a very nice idea," but thought it would prove difficult. "Only a limited amount of space is available in the Houses," he said...
...concluded dispute over the Senior Class Marshal election is one that deserves considerable thought during the coming months. Since the advent of the House system in the early 1930's, College-wide elections have become increasingly anachronistic. With Harvard broken down into small, 400-man compartments it is very difficult to attach much more significance to a class election than one would to a contest to see which undergraduate has managed to get his name before the most students during his four years at Harvard...
Bowditch paced the varsity scoring with 14 points, followed by Repetto with 13. Griff McClellan netted six of six free throws along with two field goals for 10. It was this trio that shared the difficult task of guarding LaRusso...
Four games in five nights present a difficult problem to any hockey team. This lesson proved true last night as the Providence College sextet outscrapped and outhustled the tired varsity six for the first two periods and held on in the third period...