Word: harder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...often been remarked that the average college graduate is woefully deficient in his English. Few college men are able to punctuate or spell with any degree of accuracy, and what is much harder to correct, they cannot express themselves clearly, verbally or on paper...
...spring southern trip of the Yale baseball team begins today. According to Coach Quinby, the team is farther advanced than any recent Yale team, this being due in large measure to the ten days of outdoor practice they have had. The schedule arranged for the present trip is a harder one than usual, as it includes, beginning tomorrow, Georgetown, Washington American League team, University of Virginia, Holy Cross, Pennsylvania, and Annapolis...
...reality but a common-place. Yet at some time every American must have asked himself whether he too would give his life in case our country should ask it. If we have had near relatives and friends who have volunteered or have already fallen it may have been even harder to sit still as a mere spectator of the most tremendous and disastrous war in history...
Such patriotism as leads a man to lay down his life in defense of a cause in which he believes is deserving of all praise. But there is another patriotism which is harder to give because it has no drum beating accompaniment, because those who give their lives in its cause do not today die heroes. It is a patriotic sacrifice which is not merely the attempt to prevent an evil already done from going further, as is that of the volunteer soldier, but one which is at least a constructive beginning towards preventing the need for making such sacrifices...
Coach Winsor gave the University hockey squad a hard work-out at the Arena yesterday afternoon. Phillips and Doty were both in condition to play and the men put up a much harder contest as a result. After drill in passing and shooting, the University line with the substitute defense had a ten-minute scrimmage with the second-string linemen backed by the regular defense. Neither side was able to score, although both teams played fairly good hockey. Lather the regular University seven played the substitutes a hard fifteen-minute game which resulted in a 1 to 1 tie. Townsend...