Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...condition of the schools was bad, and, as it was found to be exceedingly difficult for a small town to maintain a school of its own, a new legislation substituted two hundred families for the former one hundred. At this time over 200 towns in the state were supporting grammar schools, but this new regulation reduced this number to less than 100. In this year district schools first put in an appearance, and helped to lessen still further the interest taken by the small towns. The district schools absorbed all the educational energy of the commonwealth. Academies supported chiefly...
Yesterday the cricket eleven played B. A. A. at Longwood and was beaten by a score of 57 to 30. The eleven was much weakened by the absence of Pool, Du Pont, Adams, and Scott. A soft and bumpy crease made scoring difficult, Comfort being the only man on either eleven to reach double figures...
...pass to tragedy and comedy. There is in England a picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy. One day Garrick was asked which he considered the most difficult. "Oh, sir," replied the actor, "whether I am well or ill, in high spirits or low, I am always equal to tragedy, but comedy is a serious business." He meant that comedy requires an amount of earnestness and depth that is not usually given to it. An actor, while thoroughly appreciating it must always take a joke seriously, otherwise the humor is lost. Dogberry, for example, when...
...this he needed two stars. When Garrick and Barrie were playing Romeo in London, there was much dispute as to which of the two made the best Romeo. Mrs. Siddons, who was playing Juliet for both, was appealed to, and this is how she answered: "It is very difficult for me to decide, but I will tell you how they both affect me. In the balcony scene, when Garrick is making love as Romeo, he is so eager and ardent that I am afraid every moment that he will leap and jump up to me. When I act with Barrie...
...That there will be no lack of acceptable contributions seems shown by the adherence, secured before the conference met, of nearly fifty well-known professors and writers of history. The financial question is more difficult. In order to provide for printing bills, business management, for the salary of a competent managing editor, and for payment for the reviews and for a part of the articles, a sum is necessary which no publisher can be expected to risk at the outset. The conference therefore voted to raise a guarantee fund of two thousand dollars a year for three years; after which...