Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...story of Hampton Institute is a very difficult one to tell in a short time and we must hurry on in order to give the briefest idea of the Institute...
...best that we have heard in Sanders Theatre, and it was greatly appreciated by the large and enthusiastic audience. The Glee Club sang with care and expression after they had fully entered into the spirit of the evening. It is a little unfortunate that they placed their most difficult piece first on the programme, for they were not in the spirit for it and sang it much less effectively than their later pieces. To be sure the song "The Rhain and the Moselle" by Ethelbert Nevin is a long and difficult composition with frequent and sudden changes in key that...
Journalism is at best a hard profession-if it may be called a profession,-college journalism, even, in the amount of time and work and thought it demands is much more difficult than one generally thinks. The standard of journalism, as illustrated in the average newspaper of this country is low, partly because it lacks well trained and cultivated men and partly because the wretched state of the public mind is not satisfied with anything higher. There is, therefore, a need for improvement in the tone of journalism that we may have more journals in this country to compare favorably...
...take the high position in the country which it should take, the requirements for admission should be made harder. Only the best men are wanted, and the chief method to get the best men there, as here in the college, lies in these requirements for admission; the more difficult they are the better the men who pass them. On the other hand if the requirements are too severe they will doubtless tend to shut out many men who object already to requirements that call for four years study or their equivalent at college. At present the college and Medical School...
...lectures in the past have been somewhat too technical to prove very attractive to the average college man. The one today however is less difficult. The subject is as follows: "The maintaining, explaining and proving the validity of the ordination of ministers or Pastors of the churches, and to their administration of the sacraments or ordinances of religion as the same bath been practiced in New England...