Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...measure which will, probably in a measures, diminish the number of students. These are the requirement that every student shall pass an examination at the end of the year in at least three subjects before being allowed to continue in the school and the requirement of a more difficult admission examination...
...examining the provisional list of commencement parts which was published in Saturday's CRIMSON and additions to which are printed this moning, it has been difficult to draw any exact conclusions as to the character of those men who have taken the highest rank in their class. In order, however, to ascertain in a rough way what kind of men it was who stood so high, the following table has been prepared. The table is necessarily very incomplete, but it will help to answer the question...
...drawing the line between society men and non-society men the task has been rather difficult. As the object is to get at the number of men who besides studying have seen something of the social side of college life, the members of the following social and literary societies were included: the Hasty Pudding, the Pi Eta, the Institute of 1770, the Delta Upsilon, the O. K. and the Signet...
...classes. One class in Free Movements and Light Gymnastics, will meet at 4.45 every week day but Saturday and will have the right to the floor from 4.45 to 5.15. This class will be open to all members of the University and the exercises will not be so difficult as to prevent one's joining the class at any time...
...difficult to realize perfectly how much wholesome restraint such an athletic sport exerts over new men at college, coming at the time when they are weakest. The need of good exercise is the cause of much of the danger of a university life. What could be a better preparation for morality and health and success than the hour's exercise on Jarvis and the hot and cold shower and rub down that follow? Three months of it can easily add twenty pounds to a man's physique, and 10 per cent. to his examination marks, and 50 percent...