Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paper." The play itself is a comedy adapted from the French and presents many laughable scenes. Throughout Mr. and Mrs. Kendall are admirable and they are well supported by the other artists of the company. Mrs. Kendall herself has a good stage presence and readily adapts herself to the difficult variations of her part. During the latter part of the week the Kendalls will give "The Iron Master...
...believe the action of the faculty a mistake. It seems a little like an untimely exercise of preparatory school discipline. The permission granted to give a concert in New York goes very little towards establishing the committee's wisdom in refusing the remainder of the petition, since it is difficult to see, how, on the arguments laid down, the line should be drawn against Baltimore and Washington, for example, and not against New York...
...faculty, in refusing to grant the petition of the Glee and Banjo clubs to be allowed to make a Christmas trip, is to be regretted. The work of the clubs last year was extremely creditable. From every point of view the trip was successful, and it is difficult to see how anything but good resulted. The concerts were, in reality. Harvard reunions, giving the graduates in the distant states chances which no other occasions would afford-to renew their love and loyalty for the college by the reawakening of old memories and by mingling with the undergraduates of today...
DEAR SIRS-Now that the foot ball season has closed we shall be left practically without any outdoor sport until next spring. The only recreation through all that time will be skating, which is always precarious in this climate, and difficult to indulge in because Fresh pond is so far from the college. Before it is too late I should like to suggest through your columns the advisability of forming an association to introduce tobogganing at Harvard. This sport has lately come into as great favor in the vicinity of Boston as it has always had in Canada. I believe...
...actual intentions of some of Princeton's players, however, the faculty may well be mistaken, since their information on the vital point in question from their very position is almost sure to be unreliable. However that may be, even they, we believe, would find it difficult to explain the coming of George and Cash at the eleventh hour on any other ground than the supposition that they entered college for the purpose of playing foot ball. Now that these men are registered and the present trouble has arisen it will no doubt behoove them for a time to improve their...