Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pitcher's box, and made an excellent showing. Morrill's men got only four clean hits, and twelve of them struck out. The home run which Cloney made in the fifth inning would not have been good for more than three bases if Alward had not found it difficult to pick up the rolling ball on the dirt tennis courts back of the Law School. The throwing to bases was sharp on both sides, sixteen men in all being caught on bases. It was not until the fourth inning that Harvard found the ball, but after that the batting...
...verse of the number consists of but one poem, "A Rainy Day" by Algernon Tassin. It is a difficult poem to criticize, but it certainly shows poetical striving on the part of its author...
John Cummings spoke the "Death of Minnehaha." He held the attention of the audience by his careful and correct rendering of a difficult piece...
...these was the merest scratch, and the other was made by the last man in the last inning. The whole team backed up the pitcher in a way that left very little to be desired. Bates fumbled a grounder in the first inning and Dickinson another rather difficult one in the sixth, but with these exceptions the fielding of the team was perfect. Whenever one of Morrill's men got a base he was sure to be thrown out before he came home. Only one man scored, and only one was left. Bates watched the base like...
...race yesterday. The men rowed an excellent race and it is not to be wondered that their classmates were happy last night. The race was not very satisfactory however, to any of the other classes. The complications into which the other crews got were very unfortunate. It would be difficult to fix the fault, and perhaps it is better not to try as it will not help matters. To the whole University the most gratifying feature of the race was the excellent work of the freshman crew. Notwithstanding a discouraging start the crew kept to their work pluckily...