Word: difficultly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are several unavoidable conditions which bring about this handicapping of distant candidates. Often the members of obscure high schools become interested in entering as Eastern college only late in their secondary course. A lack of friends and relatives with a background of collegiate experience makes it difficult to arrive at a decision that is a matter of natural sequence of boys brought up in closer touch with University traditions. As a result, the old plan of examination is out of the question and as a matter of fact seldom employed by this class of applicant...
...eating regulations throughout their college careers might throw valuable light on Mr. Holmes' contention here. But there is no reason, according to Mr. Holmes' statement why a student, once his House has been chosen, "will have no chance whatever to get into another House." It is certainly not difficult to perceive that any appreciable latitude in opportunity to shift Houses will soon lead to a general grouping on interest or class basis. That is, gentleman of leisure will tend to congregate in one House, determined scholars in another, publications men in a third until the object of providing each House...
...Holmes further expects to see student relations and life at Harvard "more leisurely" and "happier" under the House plan. How greater leisure can he introduced into the life of a college without the relaxation of academic or extra-curriculum activity is difficult to see. In the expectation or greater happiness under the new system one can find little more than a blithe optimism common to all prophets of a utopian future...
...long experience", adds Professor Sisson. But, as Professor, Richardson says in "Study of the Liberal College" (1924): "Of course there are great differences between the various colleges . . . Some of them, such as Balliol and New College, have set themselves toward a marked degree of scholastic excellence . . . It is very difficult for a college to change its status. In the first place it has acquired a constituency of a fairly definite type . . ." The Harvard plan, painstakingly whitewashed as it has been of all traces of Anglomania, has on this side no resemblance to the Oxford idea...
Extended across the advertisement was the gigantic headline: IS THIS GOOD AMERICANISM? GET THE FACTS-LEARN THE TRUTH. It was difficult to tell at first glance whether the advertisement was pro-or anti-Catholic. Caught eyes read on. The explanation: "Many sections of our country, particularly where there are few Catholics, are being flooded with millions and millions of pieces of literature of the type exhibited here. . . .' Then there were quotations from the U. S. Constitution, William Jennings Bryan, President Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt on the subject of religious liberty. The entire advertisement was the work...