Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University to assert her old supremacy in debating. It is hard to admit, but granted it must be, that for the past two years Harvard has made but little progress in debate in comparison with her rivals. It may be that we reached a climax beyond which it is difficult to go, several years since, and that the other colleges, where debating was slow in gaining a foothold, have been gaining ground faster, but this is difficult to believe. At all events, if there is any truth in this conjecture we want to see it contradicted this year...
...shown by the statement of a member of the committee which has superintended the plans for the Brooks Memorial building, there are practical reasons which will make it difficult to use that fund for a University Club. The sum has been raised by small subscriptions, and the committee being unable to ascertain the wishes of the subscribers, naturally feel bound for this reason, if for no other, to carry out their original plans...
...Freshman football squad went through the regular practice on Saturday afternoon before the Williams game. Three new men appeared: E. Postlethwaite, P. H. Sylvester and B. Z. Kasson. The candidates who are out now are working hard but it will be difficult to develop a winning team unless a much larger number of men come out immediately...
...Track Team was not, as Mr. Lathrop says, overstrained at the time of the Harvard-Yale dual games, it becomes both an interesting and a difficult question to decide why the defeat was so decisive. It could not have been entirely because Yale had better men, as a comparison of previous records showed; nor was the slow track entirely to blame, because not only the runners but the high-jumpers, broad-jumpers and pole-vaulters were far below their usual form...
HAIR CUTTING reduced to a science. Any professor or student having hair that is stubborn or difficult to brush should call at Grifflth's Hair Dressing Rooms, 7 Brattle Street, Harvard Square. Razors carefully honed...