Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...require a greater number of hours in the first year, - in studies, too, in which the student is deprived of a selection. There is good ground also for the complaint often heard respecting the severe requirements of the Freshman year in the various branches of Mathematics. These are so difficult that many students become discouraged and disgusted to such a degree that few electives in Mathematics are ever chosen. The result is that students are not so well educated in these most desirable branches, at the end of the college term, as they would have been had a more judicious...
FROM the games that have been played it is difficult to form a correct judgment about the Nine, Wednesday's game with the Beacons being such an improvement on the disgraceful exhibitions at New Bedford and Boston. The weakest point seems to be the batting, only one base-hit being made in the whole game, and many of the men seeming to be surprised into striking. Although we much admired the catcher's cool playing Wednesday, we doubt whether he has the requisite strength for the position; could not the catcher of the Beacons be induced to play? We also...
...fact probably is, that considerations of justice have probably never been thought of by the authorities. The reasons which induce the College to offer good rooms to sub-Freshmen are of course perfectly evident; the extortionate prices which are charged for rooms in the Yard make it difficult to let all of them, and so good rooms must be offered to those who enter next year, or else they will room outside. Viewed in this light, there is no ground for surprise at the retention of rooms, however much there may be for dissatisfaction...
...conferred. Honors in an institution of learning can have no other object than to incite a spirit of emulation among its members, and we have no doubt that the Faculty, by a juster distribution of them, and by an enlargement of their scope, will increase their efficiency. It is difficult to conceive of an objection to a just and fair acknowledgment to any student for what he has done, irrespective of what he has left undone, except it come from one who in the midst of plenty cannot enjoy it unless those around him are starving. But such a spirit...
...Indian-club swinging - Messrs. E. D. Brandegee, '81, and J. T. Howe, '80, presented themselves. Mr. Brandegee led off with a fine exhibition of heavy club swinging, and Mr. Howe followed with a marvellously agile performance, using much lighter clubs. In the second round the former executed several extremely difficult motions which tested his strength, and showed off his perfect condition and careful training. Then Mr. Howe gave a second display of a great variety of dexterous tricks, which, however, belonged properly to the province of juggling and sleight-of-hand, rather than to that of club swinging...