Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bard '06 and J. L. Cooney '07 are the most likely candidates for first base. For short stop, the most promising men are R. M. Forsythe '04, W. B. Cormany '04, G. J. Buswell '07, and A. J. Zahnizer '07. This position will probably be the more difficult to fill...
...stories and a play complete the number. "The Viceroy's Treasure" is bare where it might have been convincing; and it is difficult to determine whether "Upon Thy Children's Children" is or is not farce. The latter begins rather effectively with an Indian legend and ends with an entirely obvious and uninteresting love story, apparently intended to illustrate the ancient theme of the legend. "The Ambassador" is clever, light, and decidedly amusing. Without it the number would be a comparative failure; as it is, Mother Advocate turns into the road for a new volume with at least one good...
...windy, or muddy--as it easily might--this walk would be disagreeable. In any event, after walking that far, any further "exercises" ought to be good--certainly they ought to be more substantial than the Statue exercises of the past: to which there is so little that it is difficult to appreciate their beginning or their ending. But so far no very enticing program for this new departure has been proposed. "Dancing on the green" has been suggested:--as if people would feel like careering around on the grass when they knew that civilized dancing was going...
...Freshman basketball team will play a game with Phillips Andover Academy at Andover, this evening at 8 o'clock, in the Borden gymnasium. As the Andover team is exceptionally strong the game will be a difficult one for the Freshmen...
...team played the Cambridge High School, winning by a score of 23 to 8. A marked improvement was noticeable in the Freshman play both in shooting and in the defensive work of the whole team. Howard and Smith were especially effective, several times shaking off their opponents and shooting difficult baskets...