Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...debate among the schools. The past few years of college history have proved so forcibly the advantages to college men of learning to discuss questions with ease and intelligence before an audience, that those advantages are well understood. Schoolboys are, of course, not so well fitted to handle difficult questions, but aside from the intellectual training, they are perfectly capable of profiting by the experience of facing an audience. This portion, at least, of the speaker's training can not be begun too early, and that the fact is appreciated is shown by the increasing number of school debating clubs...
...College ground is to be invaded, and even if the new building does not fail to harmonize with the old ones, it seems sure to overcrowd the space. As for Randall Hall, it would probably be much more useful, if placed nearer the square. It is of course, exceedingly difficult to pick out a position which would be satisfactory in every way, but it will be a matter for regret if the present choice can not be improved upon...
...subscribing for the magazine were loyalty to it as a Harvard publication little could be said in behalf of the editors, worthy though that motive undoubtedly is. But the high standard which the Graduates' Magazine has maintained, and the fact that it furnishes an accurate statement of college doings difficult for graduates to obtain in such convenient form elsewhere, are practical reasons why its circulation should be larger. The magazine has certainly earned much greater support than it receives at present...
...represented soon to be held at Providence, is a welcome sign of the growth of a healthy movement toward the correction of athletic evils. The most ardent partisan of intercollegiate sport is forced to admit that under present conditions, abuses do exist, and that they are abuses very difficult to eradicate. The intensity of public interest, and the resulting fierceness of competition form an influence in favor of excess which is almost irresistible...
...itself. The result is that much progress has thus been made. But at the same time, and for the very reason that each college has thus worked on its own lines, the conflict of various opinions and interests has caused great confusion. The different systems of restraint are so difficult to bring into cooperation, that the diversity of remedies is now one of the most serious impediments in the way of a complete cure...