Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...little difficult to discover just where we have lost in numbers this year. Last year's, increase as we have said, was 185 in the undergraduate departments while this year it is 135, a difference of 50, and the rest of the loss lies in the graduate departments. The graduate school, then, has lost in numbers, the seniors have gained, owing partly to the number of men who came here for the senior year only; the juniors have increased also, while the sophomores have held their own - an unusual occurrence. The freshman class is as usual the largest class which...
...uniform quarantine law necessary. - (a) Danger national as well as local. (b) Cholera always transported. (c) The spread of cholera difficult to prevent. (d) Shown by legislation...
...appeal to the honor of such men, for it is manifest that their sense of honor is so small; but the confusion and extra expense to which they put the library and the extreme inconvenience they put to men who use the books ought to influence them. It is difficult, perhaps, to discover such a man, but once discovered he should receive severe punishment...
...somewhat early to predict how strong a team Yale will put into the field, there is no doubt but that it will be far above the average. It is improbable however, that it will equal last year's team, with its clean score, for it will be a very difficult task to find men good enough to fill the places left vacant by the departure of such old players, as Heffelfinger, Morrison, McClung, and Barbour...
Down to the end of the eighteenth century, the official language of the college was Latin, and the Class-day orators seldom attempted the vernacular. But the Latin verse was difficult and the poets from the first appear to have written in English. Toward the end of the last century the orators began to incline toward their mother tongue and this occasioned a remonstrance from the faculty in the form of a regulation, passed in 1802, that "in future no performance but a valedictory oration in the Latin language * * * be permitted" on Class-day. The faculty was soon forced from...