Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...question of professional coaching is a difficult one today. By "professional" I mean the ordinary use of the term, referring to the man who for years has either played for money or has earned his living by the instruction of athletics--not the college graduate of reputation who perhaps for a season or two coaches a team before entering business. The ordinary professional--there are exceptions to be sure--has the spirit of winning at any cost, and he is often willing to employ all the "tricks of the trade" or to deceive the umpire by some little ruse...
...long string of baseball victories to her credit; yet in one season, Mr. Lush turned out a nine from poor material which defeated a Harvard nine of veteran calibre, coached under an amateur system. The converse, nearly, is true in rowing, though Mr. Wray had even a more difficult task, because he had to oppose a professional system of marked success. Yet Mr. Wray's success here and his superiority over his amateur predecessors is unquestioned. Track has always seemed to be a sport where the professional trainer is necessary. Thus we have on the one hand the known superiority...
...play during the first half was fairly close, due mainly to Cuthell's inability to take advantage of Harvard's fouls. In about the middle of this period Currie shot the University team's only goal from the floor on a difficult shot from the corner. Cuthell by very fast work made two baskets from the floor in this half, and when time was called the score was 9 to 5 in favor of Columbia...
...Most difficult of all to estimate is Mr. Wheelock's achievement in "Sea-Visions." The irregular metre and occasional faulty rhymes ("moan" and "gone," "saw" and "door") are disturbing. The overlapping phrases in the first line of each stanza, on the other hand, and the insistent refrain, "O thalassa, thalassa," are decidedly effective, and only fail to be completely successful, perhaps, from the fact that they seem a bit too consciously employed. These, however, are minor faults in a poem which, as a successful attempt to treat a great theme worthily, is decidedly unusual in undergraduate verse...
...season. Coach Pieper stated that the coaching this year would be directed to the further development of the Harvard system, and toward proficiency in intelligent baseball. He admitted that the shortness of the season and the necessity of reducing the squad to a working size made it difficult to give every man a fair trial, and asked that all complaints be made directly to the authorities. He further urged that individual spirit should be sacrificed to obtain harmony--the essential of a winning team--and that every one should go into the work with the best interest of the team...