Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...especially difficult this year to predict with any degree of accuracy the result of the meet. Dartmouth men took part in the Pennsylvania relay carnival in April and thus have the advantage of outside competition, while the Harvard team can be judged only by the results of the handicap and interclass games...
...first described the quail, grouse, and woodcock which are found in the grain fields of New England. Further south, especially in Florida, shore birds flock in great numbers, but are extremely difficult to photograph. The larger game birds,-geese, ducks and teal, are found by thousands along the lakes throughout North Dakota...
...Seniors have not rowed twice together in the same order this week, and it is therefore difficult to form a just estimate of their progress. The Junior crew has developed excellent time but, being troubled as well as the Seniors by exceeding irregularity of men reporting, has not rowed in the same order two days in succession. On Thursday they rowed over the 1 and 7-8 mile course, for the second time this year; in fairly satisfactory time. The Junior training table will start the day after the vacation...
...enlarge the mind of a thoughtful boy or girl. A later book, to be greatly prized, is one whose rather inadequate title is "The Neighbor", and whose chapter. "The Problem of the African", while liable to some criticism in detail--as is almost everything yet written on that difficult subject--yet lays down this manly conclusion, coming from a Kentuckian (p. 149) "A fair assessment of the situation leads to the conviction that morally he (the negro) is hopeful material for use in our society." If as some seem to think this whole vast question needs to be settled over...
Dean Shaler touched life at so many points that it is difficult to say in what relation his death will be most felt. The government of the University loses in him a successful administrator, sagacious and resourceful, and a stimulating and inspiring teacher; his colleagues, a delightful associate and comrade, whose words and ways brightened many a tedious hour; the students, a warm-hearted, whole-souled friend. Those of us who live near the Yard will miss his picturesque figure, like that of a handsome Andrew Jackson, in long raincoat and soft hat, striding along with the familiar swing...