Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct competition with French as a language study. And in extending this program, the school has eliminated one of the banes of college applicants--the two-year language study. It had found that less than three years of any language left even the brightest students in a difficult position on College Board exams. Their scores, even if good for second-year students, were not likely to be high enough to impress colleges. And in further changes, Middlesex now starts people on languages earlier in their school career if they wish--it is possible to start French in seventh, eight...
...only the college can handle it. Not many colleges are interested or capable, of course, but even those that try do not succeed very well. They have to contend with two sorts of prejudices built up in high schools--the idea that math and science are either much too difficult or much too boring for the ordinary, healthy student, or the other snobbery that regards any history course at all as an imposition on the time of the budding engineer. The best General Education program imaginable could not overcome these handicaps...
...very special, and in some ways unreal experience. It is only unreal because the world does not change easily, and Putney's standards of a complete life are higher than those of most communities. The Putney graduate, who has given little though to the transition, very often finds it difficult to cope with what he considers the mediocrity of life. It is the necessary price to be paid for having been shown the possibilities of one "better world...
Such praise makes Horiuchi's eyes brim with gratitude. His early years were difficult and lonely. Trained as a child in Japan in brush and sumi, he came to the U.S. with his family at 15 and settled in Rock Springs, Wyo., where he got a job on the Union Pacific and learned western technique from a visiting WPA art instructor. Two months after Pearl Harbor he was fired, ordered to quit his company house within 24 hours. He burned all the possessions he could not pack into his jalopy and trailer, took to the road with his wife...
Harvard's Baccalaureate services, Pusey asserted, have always had a strongly religious emphasis. He noted that it has become increasingly difficult to find something to say, partly because of the disparity of faiths and backgrounds, which "promises to grow worse." But he mainly stressed the increase of secularism in the western world...