Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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MORAL: It is easy to sell one's self, but difficult to collect the money...
...more practical purpose of training ministers, and most of them ministers for particular denominations. . . . We are sure President Eliot did not intend to be vague or ambiguous when he used the phrase 'theological teaching of a perfectly unsectarian character.' But we are also sure that he would find it difficult now to tell us what such teaching is. We may, therefore, safely set down the Harvard Divinity School as necessarily denominational in its practical workings, whatever character its managers may seek to give it, or may have originally claimed...
...Judging from President Eliot's remarks, in his address at the Commencement Dinner of his own College, and from the successful efforts he has recently made to secure large donations for the Harvard Divinity School, we fear it would be difficult to show the incorrectness of the popular impression that Harvard College is really associated with the Unitarian body, . . . and therefore not in the strict sense of the term undenominational...
...boating interests are now no longer connected with the University. We have plenty of good raw material; but Yale's experience has testified that the moulding of raw material into an efficient crew is no easy task. Such a task is ours this year. Captain Trimble occupies a more difficult position than has been held by any captain of the Crew for several years; but he has already proved himself well fitted for the place. Upon the new men rests a large part of the responsibility of sustaining Harvard's boating record. They can do much towards making the captain...
...retained through life the scholarly tastes which would have promised success in a literary career. For the last quarter of a century or more he has filled the office of Secretary, and without assistance till his work outgrew the possible capacity of a single hand or brain. It is difficult to estimate the amount and diversity of the demands upon him in conducting confidential correspondence, in the minute and delicate calculations connected with the rank-list, in constructing tables of college-statistics, in superintending arrangements for examinations, and in so ordering the details of the academic routine as to preclude...