Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...gone five yards. On the next play Bowdoin fumbled, Withington falling on the ball at the 15-yard line. Corbett made another run outside tackle and scored the second touchdown. P. D. Smith caught Corbett's punt-out, but Withington failed to make a goal from a difficult angle...
Given an imaginative girl camping out alone, a gallant youth happening upon her, and a rainstorm enveloping both, and what will be the result? If you desire a pleasing answer, read in the current Monthly Mr. Roy Follett's "The Fires,"--a story which treats a difficult situation with poetic delicacy of sentiment. Mr. E. E. Hunt's prize poem, "John Milton," may be regarded as a welcome addition to what seemed to some of us our inadequate celebration of the poet's tercentenary; and it deserves the high praise of being called worthy of its lofty theme. Mr. George...
...taken by one hundred and thirty-eight. On the other hand, it is not surprising that even the best logical course is not classed by any one among the three-most favored of his whole curriculum. The real triumph of the course lies in the fact that such a difficult course can attract a hundred and thirty-eight men. The fact that a few find out that logic is monotonous to them is absolutely insignificant. The elementary courses of Professor Palmer and Professor Santayana are also not favored by any one. This result is still more grotesque, since both...
...deep impression on me. I asked myself: What can I do to live up to the demand of the Senior who wrote about the course "nothing to it," and the other who wrote "slept most of the time"? Two ways are wide open. Either I make the course so difficult in the first few weeks that only those who have a scholarly interest in psychology will take it. Then the number taking the course would be reduced to less than fifty men and it would be easy to take care that no one of them would regret...
...short, if a difficult theoretical subject like logic or psychology or history of philosophy is really to reach a large number of beginners, it would be absurd for the instructor to feel influenced by such negative votes, unless he knew the quality of the voter. Above all it would be dangerous for our elective system, if serious students were guided by such a commentary in the choice of their courses. There may be poor courses in the University, but the chances are great that this kind of canvassing with this kind of answering and tabulating entirely distorts the picture...