Word: difficult
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...entries for the parallel bars were: Loud, '87, Batchelder, L. S., A. T. Perkins, '87, J. C. Faulkner, '86. Many difficult feats were performed, the cup being awarded to Mr. Batchelder. The work of Loud and Perkins was little inferior to that of the winner...
...many good men in nearly every event. The sparring comprises several bouts instead of one, as in the last meeting, and the tug-of-war certainly will not be a walk-over. It is hardly necessary to warn the sparrers against slugging, although restraint in this direction is sometimes difficult. Good nature should be the feeling of every man, and then nobody's delicate sensibilities will be shocked by student "brutality," and the sparring will be all the more scientific...
This Cremation, then, was an annual ceremony performed by the sophomores about the middle of May in which the principal thing was the burning of some book which the class had finished that term. As the book chosen was always one that the men had found difficult to master, there was general rejoicing at its destruction, although everything was conducted with a great show of solemnity. The students composing the funeral procession began to assemble about eight o'clock in the evening of the day appointed, all wearing caps and gowns; the coffin containing the doomed book was borne...
...Nation for Feb. 18th, was published a letter from Mr. Edward D. Page, a graduate of Yale, under the title, "Two Decades of Yale and Harvard - A Retrospect." It is a comparison of the history of Yale and Harvard for the last fifteen years. It would be difficult to give a clearer statement of the facts and figures than Mr. Page has done here. We copy as follows...
...presumed that an immature writer whose sole merit is a good command of English, can develop the instant he becomes editor of a college paper into a Stimson or a Stockton; a famous novelist has said that a short story well done, is a more difficult task than a novel, - and it is short stories our college papers demand as a rule. The Monthly has seen this defect, and on account of its appearing at intervals of a month, has been able to present its readers with uniformly good stories, albeit rather gloomy at times. Now, in our humble opinion...