Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is poetry for? To the Greeks and Romans education was practically synonymous with the study of the poets. For myself, I find it extremely difficult to attach no significance whatever to the belief of poets that it is their office to teach...
...crowd could consume. The senior partners on the other hand had had considerable experience along these general lines in handling the major contests of last year, and for some reason thought they knew what ought to be procured. In a huddle with the Employment Office potentates most of the difficult problems were patched up, but on the question of sandwiches the opposite camps struck an impasse. Both had definite ideas on the subject. A pitched battle ensued and the Employment Office gained an initial victory, emerging from the contest with colors flying. Five hundred more sandwiches than the senior partners...
...fact that the concessions in question are more valuable than the ordinary jobs available around the College make the problem a particularly difficult one. Several considerations make it unwise to sell them to outside interests as is done by professional promoters. And the fact remains that there will be several positions at the disposal of the Employment Office which will in effect confer a subsidy upon the incumbent, athlete or no. As there seems to be no good reason why this should be done, some provision must be made for disposing of the income over and above that necessary...
...these men expect to accomplish anything, they have before them a difficult task. Free education to all is admittedly a commendable idea, but the present method of carrying it out is of dubious merit. Formulated by men of democratic principles, the present system is an example of democracy carried too far. Proceeding on the assumption that all men are created equal, and should therefore receive equal doses of education, the founders of American public schools are necessarily constrained to keep scholastic standards down to the level of the lowly, but unfortunately ample, ranks of the barren-witted...
...days ago one might have closed one's eyes in the Palmer Stadium and imagined oneself at a cricket match, were it not for the visitors' cheering section. It is not difficult to see what prompted the Amherst Student of October 7th to remark, "About 18,000 watched the start of the game, per custom more Lord Jeff supporters than Orange and Black...