Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Consequently, they are often obliged to fall back, though they may not wish to do so, on association with their fellow countrymen and on conversation in their native languages. Thus, particularly in the first and most difficult year for foreign students in the University, when the struggle should be made as easy as possible for them, they find their difficulties greatest...
...could not go to fight he manfully stuck to his post at Harvard, devoting all his energies to maintaining the continuity of instruction, and to keeping alive the undergraduate organizations with which he was most closely identified. This was his contribution to the common cause, and it were difficult to imagine a finer or more useful...
Ignorance and illiteracy are the greatest possible obstacles to a free democratic government, a spirit of patriotism and Americanism. It is difficult to expect a man who cannot write his own name, whose whole life is bound up in six days of manual labor and a pay roll at the end, to appreciate the advantages of our particular constitution. Why should he not join the I. W. W., the Bolsheviki or any other organization that promises him more personal advantages, more money, more power. The agents of destruction are amply provided with arguments for his consumption...
Three minutes later Princeton, fighting hard but poor on team-play, lost the puck at the Crimson goal, and E. L. Bigelow '21 made a spectacular carry the length of the ice and netted a pretty shot from a difficult angle. He broke away again five minutes later and carried the puck into the goal...
...inspiring to his readers that one cannot wish it less in quantity; and in the field of political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited to his temperament. No American has approached Lowell's success in this difficult genre: the swift transitions from rural Yankee humor to splendid scorn of evil and to noblest idealism reveal the full powers of one of our most gifted...