Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...there are several points in which last year's trial suggests modification of it. Thus, it seems hardly right that Honorable Mention in a modern language which may have been acquired abroad, should be considered a ground for a degree cum laude. Again, in the Greek courses, it is difficult to see why Greek 1 of two years ago is excluded from the count, while Greek 2 is counted, as well as Greek 3, which, if difficulty be the criterion in arranging the courses, should properly be Greek...
...representatives, "Is it reasonable to expect that the New London managers, after receiving this abuse for an accident for which they were perfectly blameless, should take upon their shoulders the burden of providing for Freshmen crews, whose presence upon the Thames would add another element to the already sufficiently difficult task of conducting without accident the annual Harvard-Yale race...
...Class of Eighty-one has every reason for most hearty congratulation over the result of their class elections. A more orderly and public-spirited meeting would be difficult to find. The lines of society prejudice were utterly disregarded, and to judge from the reports of the tellers, every man voted not for a member of the same petty clique, but for the candidate who really seemed most worthy of the position. Slurs on the harmony of the class are utterly silenced. The large number of elections by acclamation or by a unanimous vote, the ease and speed with which...
...learned would be greater and more thorough, although not quite so diverse as at present. We therefore add our strongest wishes of success to the petitioners and only hope that if they succeed, the instructors opposed to the change will not think it necessary to make their courses more difficult than at present...
GAIETY THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. The wonderful tricks of Hermann can be seen to-night and to-morrow only. He offers many new and striking evidences of his skill as a prestidigitateur. The Onofri Brothers and the Lorellas perform some difficult gymnastic feats, besides, and Valvose's ventriloquism is worth hearing. Nov. 1, Corinne Opera Company...