Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five, men have a more progressive and idealistic attitude than at any other period of life. Nothing seems too big or too difficult to accomplish; there is a breaking away from the traditional ways of thinking; a consciousness of one's own power...
...development of point-winners among the track and field representatives than in either of the other two spring athletics. Although the individual athletes have developed steadily throughout the season, there has been but little advance made in arousing that element most necessary to success in all sports, and so difficult to attain in the case of track: team spirit. In this affair of morale, the training table is fully as vital as to crew or baseball...
...vital importance, the promotion of health and strength in thousands of students, Dr. Sargent announces his intention to retire from the active direction of the Hemenway Gymnasium. It is easy to understand Dr. Sargent's desire to be relieved after a lifetime of devoted work, but it is difficult to be reconciled to his going. To every student who has come in contact with him, Dr. Sargent is as real and genial a friend as he is a helpful physical advisor. Outside the limits of Cambridge Dr. Sargent is almost as well known and certainly as highly regarded...
...will indeed be difficult to fill the vacancy which Dr. Sargent will leave at Hemenway...
...appeal, reprinted this morning in another column, from the Dodecanesian Students' Council asking for the University's support in re-establishing Greek claims to certain islands now held by Italy, gives a touching indication of the confidence which exists between students in countries widely separated. It is difficult for American university men, unfamiliar as they are with any form of external oppression, to appreciate fully the part that their brothers-in-learning across the sea, play in securing freedom for many an oppressed fatherland...