Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There has been for some time a growing desire among a considerable number of men in college for instruction in the more difficult gymnastic work, such as exercises on the parallel bars and on the horse. For the benefit of these men a class in heavy gymnastics has been formed. Mr. Max Kreidel of the Boston Turn Verein, who took first place in parallel bar work at the winter meeting of the Athletic Association last year, has been engaged to lead the class. He will be at the Gymnasium every day from...
...purchase of several copies of the books most used in the course and the furnishing of necessary leaflets and printed lists of references. Otherwise much material must be put on the blackboard to be copied by each student. Perhaps you do not realize that it is a difficult matter to carry on a course for more than two hundred men, in which each shall have a fair use of the necessary books without buying them all for himself. To introduce written work for so large a course requires some rigid system, systematically carried out. If students prefer hour examinations they...
Wadsworth is very uncertain, tackles hard and well at times and occasionally plays very well. He is apt to leave his end uncovered and is difficult to coach...
...reform. - (a) Poor are not now immoderately taxed: Nation, LIV, 24 (Jan. 11, 1984). - (1) Tariff reductions are are on necessaries of life. - (2) Poorer classes pay but little State and Municipal taxes. - (b) An Income Tax is objectionable in administration: Mill's Political Economy, II, 426. - (1) Difficult to ascertain real incomes. - (2) Inquisitorial in nature. - (3) A tax on honesty. - (c) It is not approved by experience. - (1) Has serious inequalities: Gustav Cohn in Political Science Quarterly, IV, 56 March 1889); Consular Reports, 1888, Vol. 99, 100, p. 700. - (2) Creates discontent: Bastable, Public Finance...
...propriety, position, and shade of meaning, that we now first learn the secret of the words we have been using or misusing all our lives, and are gradually made aware that to set forth even the plainest matter, as it should be set forth, is not only a very difficult thing, calling for thought and practice, but an affair of conscience as well. Translating teaches us as nothing else can, not only that there is a best way, but that it is the only way. Those who have tried it know too well how easy it is to grasp...