Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp turn of the home pylon on the three-and-one-half mile course. The women asked to be allowed to fly the five-mile course to avoid the hazard. There was no chance to fly this course before the race- and anyone who races knows how difficult it is to find pylons from a low altitude...
...more praise than upon almost any other aspect of Harvard University existence. Why are weekly quizzes given to the non-honor men for almost the whole length of the year? And, worse, why must those men who have shown themselves capable of honor work in the self-vaunted most difficult undergraduate course be afflicted with regular bi-weekly hour exams? The excess study required by the average man in the course over that generally given with a full course is proverbial; the conference men find this load increased by reading in which they may have little or no interest...
...sport to support an elaborate programme of athletics while at the same time protecting their students from the commercializing tendencies of the process. Horse racing is the answer. Once more let the noble animal lift from the shoulders of mankind a load which becomes year by year more difficult to carry...
...drastic cut in his unusually large squad of 35 men, Coach J. F. Carr yesterday narrowed his attention to 14 men who will compose Harvard's Varsity soccer team. An unusually difficult schedule faces these men, but Coach Car is very enthusiastic about his material. The Varsity squad, as it now stands, ha six lettermen, and the remaining eight are mostly stars from last years' spectacular Freshman team...
With a preliminary meeting that netted a large squad of candidates yesterday afternoon, Coach Jaakko Mikkola began preparation for a difficult cross country season. "The squad has nothing on paper," Mikkola said, but intimated that, with a lot of practice, it could probably be rounded into fairly good shape...