Word: difficult
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Arena tomorrow night. Special attention was paid to the work of the forwards, which has not been up to its standard for the past week; slowness in starting and a ragged line, combined with a tendency on the part of one or two men to circle, makes team work difficult...
...going out to take up this work have a difficult task. Under the most trying conditions they must remain prompt, cheerful and devoted to a work which demands as much patience as it does actual courage...
...restrictions usually imposed upon land-grant colleges in return for the position now sought by Harvard, it is to be hoped, will soon be revised and adjusted to meet the natural requirements of the University. Of course the specifications as to drill, including numerous hours each week, are very difficult for Harvard to accept as contributory to the requirements of its B. A. degree. But there are the summer camps at Plattsburg to supply the men with just the kind of drill and indeed even better, that the War Department has always required and surely attendance at Plattsburg will...
This country will probably soon be at war with Germany. If a war be necessary to uphold the recognized rights of our nation, as it now seems to be, thinking men--and that includes undergraduates--have a difficult but a great duty to perform; that is, to preserve reason and calm judgment when the passions of the unthinking are sweeping them away; it is to remember throughout a conflict its true cause and not to permit childish credulity and unreasoning desire to blind the nation into waging a barbaric war of hate and revenge, blood-lust and conquest...
...from close to. The fact that the score was no larger was due partly, to the ineffectiveness of the University, but also to the excellent playing of W. J. Louderback '20 in the 1920 goal. If there was one sensational feature of the afternoon's practice it was the difficult stops he made...