Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be difficult at the University to become accustomed to the loss of Robert Bacon. We mourn him not only as a former editor and a former Harvard man, but also as a great American who has passed from among...
...class will be varied enough to suit the tastes of every individual, but preference will be given to out-of-door sports and competitive games. Also forms of exercise which can be kept up easily until late in life will be selected as well as those which are difficult to continue after leaving college, on account of the elaborate equipment or large number of contestants required. According to such plans, rowing, tennis, hockey, swimming, track events, and soccer will be encouraged, and in winter basketball, squash and squash racquets, boxing, fencing, wrestling and gymnasium work...
...employed to extract money from innocent Westerners, M. A. Kister converts an atheist into a believer and man of power by means of a railway accident. So far there is nothing beyond the usual legerdemain of the short story; but Robert H. Chambers has achieved a more difficult feat. His "Nigger of No Account" is well no the way which leads to literature, because the author has sympathized with his hero. I am arraid that in the craze for technique the necessity of sympathetic understanding is too often forgotten; the story goes with a click, like a child...
...support from the banks of Boston as the Magazine now receives from a certain type of "instructor." The CRIMSON has been developed by such editors as George S. Mandell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Owen Wister, Barrett Wendell, Thomas W. Lamont, W. Roscoe Thayer, Robert Bacon, and countless others. It is difficult to believe that a new and untried journal could solve the problems which these men gave much of their undergraduate careers to unravelling...
...Universities have decided that the Latin phrase-book is too hard for the American brain. It is difficult and unnecessary. The real reason that our Universities are throwing over Latin is that Latin has been badly taught, and it is easier to throw Latin over than to bring in good teaching. But what a calamitous state for the learned...