Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This year the football season at Yale has been one of slow but steady development. Again the difficult proposition confronting the coaches has been to build up a strong line. With only Forbes, Biglow and Hockenberger left to fill line positions from last year, the prospects for a strong team were not very bright. In the backfield conditions were more favorable...
...take shape about this time, when Forbes was moved from tackle to end, and Hockenberger was proving his worth as a centre. The two remaining games proved to be hard ones. By a splendid brace, when defeat seemed certain, Yale was victorious over West Point. Brown also was a difficult opponent and held Yale down to one hard fought touchdown...
...Alcott scored Yale's only touchdown on a blocked kick near West Point's goal line, from which Veeder kicked an easy goal. Just before the close of the half Knox made a fair catch on the 30-yard line and Bigelow kicked the goal from placement from a difficult angle...
...considers all the great minds and intellectual geniuses which the world has produced, skepticism is less satisfactory than the opposite view. Dying flowers rise again to fruit; decaying vegetable matter is born again. Following the line laid out by the great truths of Nature it is therefore difficult to keep our intelligence from reacting towards immortality...
...word that comes inevitably to mind as one reads these stories, even though there be in them good characterization and some telling phrase. Good touches like this in "A Committee of Three" are frequent. The writer says of a three cornered conversation: "Two is company, but three is a difficult peculiarity. In order for a group of three to talk comfortably there must be a leader, a follower, and a sharpshooter." The editorials touch briefly on "The Harvard Man Again" and "The Amateur Spirit." They are interesting, but surely the English, especially in the first one, needs a little attention...