Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...nine is astonishingly small. This is true of both battery and fielding squads. The practice this week has brought out the fact that the material is not at all above the Freshman average, and unless more interest is shown by 1911 in baseball than at present, it will be difficult to develop a winning Freshman nine. Whether or not a class is to be called a "good" class depends to a certain extent upon its record in athletics in its Freshman year. 1911 has lost the football, but won the relay. Now a great effort should be made towards developing...
...author shows that during the single term her spent in the English university, he kept his eyes open and his mind at work. A longer experience and deeper meditation might have led him to change his mind on some things, as, for example, that it is not difficult to get the English point of view, or that "refinement, because it is the most difficult part of education to attain, should therefore come last." Some things, on the other hand, are neatly put, such as this: "Some one who is very English is apt to be a South African: Canadians...
...then given the rank of secretary of embassy, and left the department of foreign affairs for three years to take up the position of secretary to the president of the Council of Ministers. This was a valuable chance to become acquainted with French political circles during a difficult and crucial period. In 1902 he accompanied M. Lonbet, President of the Republic to St. Petersburg...
...hoped others will not find them. Either of these things a man may very easily do if he is willing to put himself in the position of doing by stealth what he knows he could not do openly without being excluded from the Library. Such cases are difficult to detect. They are doubtless oftener seen by other readers than by the officers of the Library...
...preliminary work the forwards were sent down the rink against the defense to develop passing and team play. This was followed by a 30-minute scrimmage between two provisional teams in which neither side scored owing to the roughness of the ice, which made passing and shooting very difficult. The work of the defense was good though it was not given a thorough test...