Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...precise average opinion of any student group, especially if it be as large as Harvard's, is always difficult to know. What the leaders desire they find ways of voicing, and it is with their forth reaching views that the public is always most interested. Consequently it is significant that the university's daily paper is urging the administration to action that will bring the institution into line win the Institute of Technology in evident willingness to enter into formal relations with the commonwealth, Harvard acting as an advisory agency. To be sure Tech's plan is far from worked...
...source of news, the large pecuniary profits that may go with professionalism, the intense rivalries between communities and between educational institutions in support of their athletes' prowess, all these have had the effeet of making maintenance of amateur sport with its traditional indifference to monetary reward more difficult than if used to be. "Competition for the love of sport" is the essence of amateurism. According to the committee: and it is a form of competition that well wishers of athletes honor highly always...
...longest and most notable prose piece in the July number of the Monthly is "Leaf, Somebody's Son" by A. Calvert Smith. The author makes ingenious use of the small boy's point of view to relate a fragment of the Saga of Eric the Red. The difficult style is well sustained, and the story is remarkable for happily chosen details. The small space devoted to the inner plot will disappoint readers who admire Kipling's "Puck of Puck Hill" series...
Three news editors have already been chosen from the class of 1917, leaving places for at least seven more, who will be taken on after the fall and spring news competitions next year. The competition is difficult but the work is distinctly worth while, not only as a training in accuracy in writing, and efficiency in gathering news, but also because of the broad insight that it gives into the activities of the University. In no other way may these advantages be secured, and the successful candidate is given further valuable experience as an editor of the paper, in handling...
...jumps, and Camp and Sturgis in the pole vault and hammer throw respectively. From this brief forecast it becomes at once evident that the winner of no event is certain at this point, that several records should be broken, and that to choose the ultimate victor is indeed a difficult task...