Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...supposed to have detected its presence there. But why, in the name of all that is musical, must we be afflicted with such a rendering of Coronation as was given in Appleton one morning last week? Let our Glee Club extend their acquirements by the mastering of such difficult music as Coronation and Old Hundred...
...because they appear to have no point to them; or if they have their applications, they are so poorly carried out, either by inability on the part of the writer or by his seemingly forgetting his primary object, that the interest awakened at the beginning gradually fails. It is difficult for the college writer to find worthy objects for his wit, and nearly as difficult to carry through that wit consistently to the end. Since the readers of the college journals are for the most part educated, and since witty writings to please such a class are very hard...
...find a fellow with whom we can agree in all important points even, is difficult; to live in the other way, gives little satisfaction to either chum...
...frequent change of electives. How much greater, then, would be the dissatisfaction, if in their first year they could choose their own studies. It is by no means a vain fear that the subjects which prove to be "soft" would be too readily elected in order to escape more difficult, though perhaps far more important studies. And this may happen, not through any desire to lessen work, but by an imperfect knowledge of the subjects and their importance. There seems no objection to giving, at least, a choice to Freshmen, as, for instance, of different authors; but even this...
...Romance offers us this feature, and is therefore of no little importance in the history of speech. Its study is, so to speak, the A B C of the philologist. It offers a criterion, a test, for other and more difficult studies, and is a living type on which we may build our theories. Its application is practical enough. The habit of comparison and inquiry which it forms finds daily exercise, and cannot be too highly cultivated; and in our age, when a man of culture cannot exist without the knowledge of at least two languages besides...