Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extremely difficult to keep the present large stock of books on hand as the stock depreciates rapidly, and with present imperfect system of getting information about the number of books to be used, (implying a chance of oversupply or a lack of sufficient copies for the students of any course) the risk in this department is very great. Few are aware of the extent to which the best books now published have been offered all this year...
...most of the events and not a great deal of enthusiasm was aroused among the spectators. As it was impossible to follow the order of events on the program, W. F. Pills bury, '89, opened the meeting with an excellent exhibition on the flying rings. He performed many difficult feats with grace and precision...
...than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have been taken are to be found in almost every part of the country above the Persian Gulf, which is now known as Babylonia and Assyria. Throughout the whole of this region traveling is difficult and dangerous, and although great efforts have been made by enthusiastic archaeologists, little has been accomplished when compared with the vast amount of research yet necessary to give the world a true conception of the topography of the ancient cities in this region. The French government was the first...
...probable, however, that this intercourse has had any such effect, for the article goes on to say that the warmest personal friendships between teacher and taught have grown out of such intercourse-friendships which have been a stimulus to finer scholarship and nobler manhood. It is difficult to conceive that such effects are exhausting. But a still greater proof of the approval with which the intimate relationship existing between student and professor at Harvard is found in the recent College Conference meeting, at which Mr. Roger Wolcott talked to the students of the regulations passed by the Overseers. Never before...
...necessary for Ninety-two to take prompt action as regards the captaincy of the team. Mr. Cady was elected provisionally, and no time should be lost in acting upon his election, for confirmation or otherwise. As matters now are he is placed in the difficult position of having full responsibility without full powers...