Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago when the Harvard crew was left in mid-season without a coach, E. J. Brown '96 performed a graceful service by taking over the instruction of the University boat. It was a critical time and his prompt acceptance of this new responsibility saved an otherwise difficult and embarrassing situation. He had been very successful as a class crew coach and nothing but gratitude was felt by Harvard men when he stepped into a breach which the shortness of the time before the Yale race made impossible to fill in any other...
...tangled to be dismissed with a mere charge of incompetence against the coach although this is undeniably the most obvious feature of the situation. Harvard crews have apparently felt some necessity for including the largest possible proportion of men who have rowed on preparatory school crews. It is admittedly difficult to weld a free swinging unit from material which comes to Harvard possessed of ingrained differences in rowing habits, but it is a tradition difficult to break away from. Mr. Brown should not be too severely censured for his failure...
...those who deliberately interfere with the natural processes of life preach purity to women? . . . Their evil books are studied by the young whom matrimony never joined. Writers, painters, and actors on the screen and stage, women by the fashion of their dress, who render self-control more difficult and thereby make natural craving for sinful self-gratifications more imperious than it would otherwise be, are doing more evil and committing a sin in the sight...
...Messrs. Shaw, Chesterton and Herbert George Wells. Instead of replying to the Shavian sex sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to assail Mr. Wells, evolutionist. He began by talking about atheists, of whom, he said, the world has very few. "An atheist," he boomed, "is much more difficult to emancipate than any one else because he is, above all people, the narrowest and most completely captive." But Mr. Wells is not even an atheist, explained Mr. Chesterton. He is merely antiChristian, which requires less logic, courage or consistency than being an atheist. "They [the Wells type of thinkers...
Such is the general tenor of conversations often held between a certain famed young man and the bright young person whom he calls his wife. The famed young man has always found it difficult to grasp the inward significance of mathematical and other studious problems. The "wife," or in terms divorced from West Point slang, the famed young man's West Point roommate, is a "star man," standing in the first ten of the first class. He is good at all things studious. His name is J. A. K. Herbert. He is Captain of B Company...