Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nine has lost its first great game of the season. It is a result which was feared by nearly all Harvard men. The conditions of the first Princeton game are always hard, and were this year particularly so. It is difficult to play a game away from home and before a large number of spectators among whom few are favorable to Harvard, and the inexperience of the nine made the difficulty still larger. Besides this, circumstances had made it advisable to forego a number of the games usually played before Princeton is met, and it is generally conceded that...
...play, which is a comedy in three acts, is well written, both incident and dialogue being often very clever. The part of John Brattle, private secretary to Pickletop, was well taken by Carleton Noyes '95, and Walter Van Kleeck in a rather difficult piece of character acting gave a creditable performance. One of the features of the comedy is a serenade by Bailey, White, Norton, and Van-Kleeck...
After the class races comes the Graduates' Cup kicking contest. In addition to this the football management will offer prizes for accurate punting, place and drop kicking, and for the best kicking under difficult conditions...
...would be difficult to enforce the law: (a) Kitchen bar-rooms and pocket peddlers. (b) Americans object to espionage. (c) Possibility of sale through (1) prescriptions and (2) clubs...
...certain pressure of emotion, and an ever-surging, yet bridled, excitement in the poet, giving a special intensity to his way of delivering himself. In poetical races and epochs this turn for style is peculiarly observable; and perhaps it is only on condition of having this somewhat heightened and difficult manner, so different from the plain manner of prose, that poetry gets the privilege of being loosed, at its best moments, into that perfectly simple, limpid style, which is the supreme style of all, but the simplicity of which is still not the simplicity of prose. The simplicity of Menander...