Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hope that the amount raised would be sufficient for the portrait and also for a large Harvard shield to be set into the panelling above the Harvard fire-place. The canvassing of dormitories was begun and circulars were sent out to non-resident members, but it was found difficult to raise a sufficient sum for the entire enterprise...
...hardest to decide, as none of the results were satisfactory for distance. Five or six men made an average of twenty-five yards, but Ristine won through better speed and form. The drop kicking was decided principally on speed and accuracy. Taylor made three fair goals at a difficult angle from the twenty-five yard line, and was awarded the prize. The place kicking contest was decided solely on accuracy, Rainsford being the only contestant to get three goals from the twenty-five yard line...
...Chin Wee," a poem, also unsigned, is a clever bit of versification -- nothing more. "The Eagle," by Roy Pier, is pleasing in conception and imagery, but halting in its rhythm. "On Lafayette Square," a prose article by R. Inglis, which concludes the number, is a good attempt at a difficult character sketch...
...loafer, his repentance and regeneration, does not mar the interest of the story, for the plot is set forth and made to seem almost new by an unusually vigorous style. One feels disappointed, however, that the writer should confess himself unable to evolve a climax from an interesting and difficult situation, by stating finally that it was "All a dream...
Whether or not Mr. Mitchell's success might have greater in a very difficult question, Mr. Paul Bourget goes far towards proving that the novel form is so intrinsically different from that of drama that a work once supremely well cast in one cannot be translated into the other. Undoubtedly Mr. Mitchell failed to produce a final literary masterpiece because his task was impossible. Technically the structure of his play is admirable and his selection and co-ordination of incidents is in the main wise and effective. Artistically he has made a number of good stage figures, who speak some...