Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...were called out soon after the mid-year examination period, and, after a small amount of preliminary work in the tank at the University boat house, went out on the Charles for the first time on February 21, about a month earlier, than last year. The most difficult task was the selection of a stroke. At the beginning of the season, E.C. Bacon '10, and C. Morgan, Jr., '08 were considered the most probable candidates for the position, but in March Sargent was tried out and since the 28th of that month has been stroking the crew regularly. To fill...
...publicity, state supervision, and popular control. The experiment of one board has been successful wherever it has been tried. A small board, moreover, is to be preferred to a large board, as it is possible for the community to choose five men intelligently, while a wise selection is difficult when there are seventy-five men to be elected, as in the case of the city councils of the present...
...difficult to realize the rapid concentration in cities which has taken place since the Civil War. This is partly due to the great immigration--sixteen and one-half millions in the same period. With overcrowding, and the influx of a body of people unused to free government, has come a depreciation of the intelligence of the suffrage, still further lowered by the creation of a class of industrial operatives whose task of monoto- nously repeating one small operation requires but small intellect...
...star actor of the evening, was irresistibly droll in his rendering of Maria Grumble, a ubiquitous spinster, and his burlesque, "I Just Can't Make my Face Behave," is the song hit of the show. The pony ballet always a feature of these plays, included many graceful and difficult dances. G. L. Yocum '07, the hero, with P. P. Marion '08 and H. G. Tomlin '09 as his chums, disguised as troubadours, made a diverting trio and added life to the scene no less by their acting than by their gay costumes...
...while on duty in one of the ship drills, but has recovered sufficiently to row in the race next Wednesday. The position of stroke, made vacant by the loss of Ingram who was perhaps the greatest factor in the success of the crew last year, has been the most difficult to fill. Kinkaid, the new stroke, is big and powerful, but lacks experience, as he has never stroked before. The other men in the boat have almost all been developed from last year's second crew...