Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...outs, without an error. Brown played a good game at third, his only error being an excusable fumble of a grounder, and one of his assists being of the star order. Wood played an errorless game at second. Rankin did excellent work at first his, muff of Curtis' difficult throw being his only misplay...
...would be difficult, however, to fancy a meeting more interesting and exciting as an athletic contest than the one of yesterday. The score was on a perpetual see-saw until the last event was finished at 7 o'clock, and when it is remembered that a difference of one first place would have tied the score, the extreme closeness of the games can be comprehended. To be sure, Yale at the end of the fourth event had 23 points while Harvard had 9 only. Yet the mile run and the mile walk evened the score and from then till...
...field '95 put up an excellent game. three errors, two of which were excusable, being the only ones to mar their good record. The whole infield should come in for especial praise, as the score shows. Whiting leads the list with nine chances, none, to be sure, being very difficult, and one put-out, a hard catch to make. Whiting made one play, however, that showed excellent judgement, and is worthy of the highest praise. With men on second and third, and no one out, a slow ground hit was knocked to him, and by a quick feint he kept...
...large portion of the class, fully twenty, could not be present. They had been mislaid and yet it was time for the examination to begin. If one of the students had not come to the rescue with a fresh supply of blue books, it would have been difficult to get the men to work for some time at least, and there is no knowing what an important difference it might have meant to the men in the results of the examination. This is but an instance of the many cases in which trouble of this sort is liable to arise...
...advantage in position in both games, particularly in the Scotch. Shortly after the recess, a rather surprising communication was received asking that the games be postponed "sine die." The reasons which Yale gave for this proposition were that she considered the game even, and that it was difficult to make the moves at this time of year...