Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fielding on both sides was sharp and clean. McLane made a fine catch in left field, and was injured by running into a post close by the grand stand. Weeks also made a phenomenal stop at first. In the eighth Upton caught a difficult foul fly and made the best throw of the afternoon to second base, cutting off Weeks, who had started from first...
Your favor of April 25th is at hand. As we understand your position you object to a possible third game after Commencement Day because it is difficult to keep your players together after the close of the academic year. This does not seem to us a sufficient reason for declining our proposal...
...have repeatedly played off a tie after Commencement Day. Indeed until Yale declined last year to follow the uniform precedents of twenty years, no question was ever raised as to the propriety of an arrangement like that proposed by us. Nor do we see how it could be more difficult for your nine to play ball as late as the Thursday or the Saturday of Commencement week than it is for your crew to row on Friday of that week...
...Uniformity can be secured only by constitutional amendment: New Englander, XLIII. 65. - (a) No hope for uniform state laws: Public Opinion, VIII. 106 - Failure of efforts of American Bar Ass'n: Forum, II. 437. - (b) Amendment would not be difficult: Forum...
...were for the most part presidents-elect of their various societies. The chief object of bringing them together into one body was to gather as large a number of facts as possible concerning the needs of the individual Associations and discuss the most effective methods of dealing with the difficult problems which present themselves in a work of this kind. In short the conference was practically a training school for the men who are next year to have the direction of the different Associations. It is intended to make this custom now started, permanent and the plan is one which...