Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Henry Penny-packer, headmaster of the Boston Latin School, to the chairmanship of the Committee on Admissions at Harvard is an event of more than ordinary significance in the educational world. It indicates a way in which both the colleges and the schools may ultimately solve the difficult problem of adjusting admission requirements in a manner satisfactory to both. The schools have hitherto accounted it a grievance that the administration of these requirements has invariably been controlled by men who viewed the entire matter from the college standpoint and who did not appreciate fully the needs and difficulties...
...been difficult to protest against the increasing orgies of drunkenness this winter without encountering the charge of a "holier than thou" attitude, of pharisaism, or of prudery, but the chastening words of the one who has done more than any other living man to make Harvard the greatest of American universities find a sympathetic echo in the hearts of hundreds of men whom we believe more truly represent the sentiments of undergraduates than the noisy group who refuse to see the beam in their own eye, and the reply of whose champion is only in truth a corroboration...
...true, as the judges themselves said, that the debate was close and the decision difficult. While I am biased, it is perhaps fair for me to point out that I am not without experience in judging debates and have on more than one occasion recognized the superiority of Harvard's opponents. In this debate, however, while I should not have thought of questioning an adverse decision, I felt that the Harvard men were entitled to the verdict, and unless I am greatly mistaken a large majority of those present would agree with...
...England provincialism and their admiration for Harvard that they decided the debate according to their prejudices and not according to the arguments presented. He asks why we could not have had judges from Chicago or New York. From long experience in obtaining judges I can answer that it is difficult to get men in the immediate vicinity to give their time to this rather unwelcome task. To suppose that three competent judges could be brought to Boston from Chicago for the purpose of deciding the Harvard-Washington debate shows, to put it mildly, ignorance of the subject. It also shows...
First, "in my opinion, no American school or college intended for youth of between 18 and 22 years of age should accept such ill-prepared material as West Point accepts." If there is any school or college harder to get into, or more difficult to stay in once having arrived, than West Point, I have yet to learn of it. The entrance examinations are notorious for their severity and comprehensiveness, especially in mathematics and allied subjects. The number of failures among the candidates each year is ample proof of this fact. Furthermore, certificates admitting without examination are not accepted from...