Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would be practical to put into effect in the present condition of educational methods. It was not intended that this report should be put into effect, but that it should serve as a valuable suggestion to all whose business it is to educate youth. This task was even more difficult than that of the conferences. First, the committee made out a tabular view, including all the requirements in the different subjects. This served as a basis from which to get at the relative amounts of time that should be spent on different subjects in a practical day's work...
...collection of fish in the Stanford University Museum has recently had added to it a specimen of lampris guttatus, or moonfish, of the dolphin family. These fish are very rarely secured as specimens although in the waters about Madeira they are tolerably numerous. The reason why they are so difficult to secure is because their habits are pelagic and they appear only singly near the coasts. As they are from four to six feet long and large in proportion, they cannot be caught by ordinary means, and so escape. The above specimen came from Monterey Bay. The National Museum...
...difficult to tell which of these two methods of painting is the better, that is, which the more accurately expresses the effects and truths of nature. Art, we are given to understand, is the exponent of the true, the good and the beautiful, but it seems very doubtful whether either the Realist or the Impressionist gives us art in his paintings...
...different dramatic complexion is Ford. If Webster terrifies, Ford causes tears; yet parts of his plays are delightful. Jonson is more difficult to understand. His works show a fine intelligence, much cleverness, and a good deal of art, his dialogues being especially bright and interesting. Comedy owes him a great debt in that he was the first to make conspicuous the idea of suggesting whole characters by means of a few characteristic traits. It is customary to regard him as the beginning of the decline of the drama, but it is perhaps fairer to say that with him artificial comedy...
...Pennsylvania, Hon. Carl Schurz, and Gen. Francis A. Walker, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consulted for about five minutes and then Professor James announced the decision. He said that the excellence of the speaking on both sides had rendered the task of the judges a peculiarly difficult one, but that they had finally agreed that if a marking were to be made on a scale of 100, Yale deserved 99 and Harvard...