Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...practice in the Gymnasium last night, the University basketball team defeated the second team by the score of 28 to 7. The work of the University team showed general improvement and was encouraging. The men were more accurate in passing and more sure at making baskets, especially from difficult positions, although on free tries several easy chances were missed. In speed and team play the work was better, especially in the second half, when the second team was completely outplayed and unable to stop the rushes of their opponents...
...will make holding more difficult and easier of detection...
Last evening I inquired for a book from the attendant at the Union Library, and was told that the book sought was one among forty-nine others which had been stolen from the library this year. It seems difficult to believe that these thefts are the acts of Harvard men--but the attendants have all along assured us that such is the fact. Taking this as true, may I suggest what seems a practical remedy. At present the attendant--Presumably the care-taker of the books,--has his desk at the extreme end of the south room, at which point...
...Abolishing the punt-out will place a premium on touchdowns made near the middle of the goal-line and a premium on skill in kicking goals at difficult angles, and eliminate any possibility of roughness on the part of the defending team in attempting to interfere with the punt...
...Widening the distance between the goal posts will increase the tendency to try for goals from the field, and make goal kicking at difficult angles a little easier...