Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stiff wind rendered passing difficult, and the score does not correctly indicate the superiority displayed by the Crimson team. Defensively Harvard's strength was impregnable; time and again the M. I. T. booters carried the ball past the University forwards, only to have the edge of their attack turned by the sterling play of the defense men. Although the Crimson forward line showed a marked improvement in aggressiveness, its inability to coordinate in front of the Technology goal was partially responsible for the low score...
...keeping with the estimates of the ten o'clock scholars resident in the Holden tradition. In accordance with this scheme, class rushes of a splendidly barbaric simplicity have been converted into tuge-of-war with their reminiscent aroma of Greek culture. At Harvard the case is somewhat more difficult, but the senior class after a year of intimate study of this problem may embody their findings in some appropriate class gift. A suggestion in this matter, pending the decision of the class, is a thick walled glass case for the belfry: though absolutely sound-proof this would enable such legend...
Assuming none the less that vocational training is the sole function of most American colleges, he hastily concludes that the best preparation for an active business life is frenzied outside activity in college. Granting that some few undergraduate organizations approximate the conditions found in actual business life, it is difficult to see how the usual ad-getting sweatshirt gathering competition shapes one for the executive chair of a large corporation. It is much easier to believe the figures of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the value of a sound background of collegiate study for success in the business...
...Northeastern aggregation is reported to be one of the strongest teams Harvard has met to date and Coach Kershaw is expecting that his team, weakened by loss of men because of hour examinations, will have a very difficult contest...
...Jersey's Palisades, and walked down the gangplank of the Homeric to Manhattan. From beneath his drooping mustache, he mumbled that "only suffering came from the World War." He then hastened to take a train for Toronto, where he knew that more newsgatherers, more photographers, would make progress difficult. For to no great city of the world could Alfred Moritz Mond, first Baron Melchett, come unobserved, unheralded...