Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first three Eli golfers will be Frank Dolph, John Gilford--who are undefeated so far--and Long Island amateur champion Tom Gillison. The Yale course is difficult, long, tricky, and full of blind holes. The Crimson squad went to New Haven yesterday to practice on it. Although the Crimson defeated Yale last year, that was its first victory over the Bulldogs in 26 years. If Harvard wins today it will be its first defeat of Yale at New Haven in over 50 years...
Students who fail Sophomore examinations will be allowed to take another test at the end of the Junior year, and to prepare for it by continuing non-credit tutorial work. Although there will be no technical bar to students who change fields of concentration, changes might be more difficult because of the expected increase of content in departmental tutorial...
...efforts of the organist, James Armstrong, to surmount these difficulties while playing an extremely difficult part, were in some cases, notably the tremendous crescendo in "Behold, all flesh," very successful. However, his choice of stops was not always happy, particularly in the use of reeds in quieter sections. But the main defects were entirely beyond his control: the sense of release which is so integral to the form of the work is impossible except as indicated in the original scoring...
Class Day that year, one observer reported, "had all the pomp and pageantry, the charm and beauty, the youth and color that has marked the occasion down through the sweep of the years. For Harvard was about to part with an old friend. It appeared difficult for the gathering to realize that Dr. Lowell wouldn't be with them on the class days to come, and they didn't seem to like...
That the Crimson was able to keep the scoring down to 4 to 1 during the first half was a credit to goalie Dick MacKinnon, who was the outstanding performer for the varsity. MacKinnon came up with twenty-eight saves, many of them on extremely difficult shots. During the second half he blocked a shot, cleared the ball himself and raced through nine bewildered Tigers to take a shot on the opponents' goal--a rarity for any net-minder...