Word: difficult
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1920
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Intercollegiate Cross-Country Meet which takes place at New Haven the morning of November 20 promises to be one of the closest and most interesting races of a number of years. The race will be run over a difficult six and a half mile course. There will be at least ten colleges represented, among which will be Cornell, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Syracuse, Pennsylvania and M. I. T. The first five men from each college to cross the line will make up the scores, the college with the lowest score to win the trophy offered annually. Each of the first seven...
...graduation so well fitted to earn an immediate living as is the engineering graduate. Business schools have come into existence because languages, literature, pure science and history have little immediate use in business and therefore for the untrained man the transition from college to business is difficult and discouraging. Schools of theology, medicine and law have been well established for many years. These schools break down the transition from college to the older professions, but until very recently no effective method of training the college men for business has existed...
...entrance to business will never be as generally based on a professional school training as is the entrance to law or medicine but there is a growing recognition among business men that-executive training difficult to get in a business organization is possible in a business school. I believe it will soon be recognized that adequate business school training offers the shortest and the surest method by which a business enterprise may obtain trained executives...
...That will depend entirely upon circumstances in the Senate and abroad. France expresses her sentiments through her press as being most sympathetic toward any changes in the covenant of the League which America might ask before she joins. On the other hand, she will find it "much more difficult to adhere to proposals for the abandonment of the league entirely, looking forward to the formation of some other form of association." France's attitude is echoed by the other League members...
...sometimes go so far as to advance the defence that the audience does not care who makes the play or that the public knows all the players anyway. Yet anyone who has watched a game from the stands will emphatically deny the first statement; and he also knows how difficult it is to recognize a person when he is effectively disguised in a uniform and headguard. As for the argument that numbering will enable scouts to learn the plays, it is above all the scout's first business to know all the players at a glance...