Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Henry Neville, Miss Balfe, and Master Eddington deserve special mention for the excellence with which they executed their difficult parts. Altogether, the play is one well worth the patronage of all theatre-going...
...caps and gowns on Class Day. The suggestion is well worth consideration by '91. Nothing can be more out of place than the dress suits as now worn, and why such an unbecoming and conventional costume was ever allowed to supplant the picturesque dress of older days it is difficult to see. Caps and gowns would have the advantage of giving a more distinctiye character to Class Day, and would revive associations of early college days, which would be far more enjoyable than the common place notions centering around the dress suit. The only valid objection which can be urged...
...slow and their tackling is faulty; in fact this latter remark might be applied to the whole team. The eleven does not tackle well. The line is very much crippled by the loss of their center and it looks as if this were going to be a difficult position to fill...
...take this opportunity, now that the term has drawn almost to a close, to thank the graduates who have been acting all this spring as coaches to the university and freshman crews. They have given their time and services without stint in a difficult and fatiguing task. They have devoted themselves untiringly to the interests of Harvard, sacrificing their private pleasure to the welfare of the university. College men must not look on thoughtlessly, as many are apt to do, and consider it all a matter of course. They must remember the debt of gratitude due to those less conspicuous...
...absence of Owsley and Murphy was badly felt by Yale, although Fox covered short without an error and accepted several difficult chances. Every pitched a very fair game and deserved better support than he got from Jackson...