Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...position of the coach of the freshman crew is a most difficult one. He has a number of men most of whom have never before rowed in a shell, to whom he is expected to teach rowing, beginning with the very rudiments. After the freshman year the work of developing the crew is not so difficult. There are some men in the class who know how to row and the question is to develop good men for the positions, or perhaps to select the few who may be necessary to fill any vacant places from a small number of promising...
...that the excitement of football is over, attention turns to the 'varsity crew, This year's captain starts out with the not easy task of having three positions to fill, as only four of last year's crew have returned to college. It will be difficult to sift out three men to take the places of Kelton, Rantoul and Lynam. The football men who rowed last year will take a rest, but very soon Newell, Waters, Acton and Cummings will begin rowing again...
Methods of instruction are far from being the same in schools of this country and the success or the failure of a student in passing an admission examination is due greatly to the way in which he is taught. It is difficult to decide upon any one system of instruction; students are perpetually being experimented on to find the best, and some teachers, partly by their personality, will succeed where others will fail. Still the method of instruction in some of our schools is woefully poor and it can be improved, though with difficulty fixed, for each year will bring...
...full-backs of last year are the quarter-backs of this, and both are the captains of their teams. It is true that both elevens have been able to find experienced men from other colleges to fill some of these vacancies, but this has made the task hardly less difficult, since these men were accustomed to the peculiar methods employed by their old colleges and had contracted habits of play which were radically different from those of their new teams...
...great opportunity of the evening and here the Orchestra showed its excellence most forcibly. The various men playing the same instrument worked as one man, and the result was an almost perfect production. If the concerts are to continue the crescendo of excellence which they have begun it is difficult to see how the last one will be classed...