Word: difficultly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Yesterday Coach Moran of Centre said that both he and his men realized that the Centre College team was up against a very difficult proposition; and that they would have to fight the battle of their lives to make a favorable showing against the heavy Harvard team. "You have a wonderful coaching system here at Harvard," he went on, "a system which with its thoroughness and individual attention has turned out a team which we can hardly expect to defeat. Not that I mean we won't do all we can to win, but we are certainly not over-confident...
...gifted for it and trained in it, and a conception of college study which makes every student an explorer in some big, general field of knowledge rather than a cub reporter in several simultaneous personally conducted tours in small corners of various fields. Small groups are more and more difficult to arrange in our huge, democratic colleges, and the number of college instructors in this country who have been in English universities or are able to imagine any substitute for the lecture system is very small indeed...
Considerable emphasis was laid on kicking during the practice. While the teams were lined up for dummy scrimmage at the side of the field on the 25-yard line, Buell and Gratwick took turns booting drop-kicks over from this difficult angle while the black jersey men were breaking through and charging at them. Fitts, Owen, Humphrey, and Stillman punted. Faxon practiced kicking goals from touchdown...
...problem of developing pitchers is the most difficult one that the coach will have to face. Although he has two reliable men in E. F. Goode '22, who won his "H" last year, and in H. S. Russell, 3E.S. who played on the second team last season, and although he has quite a few men from last year's yearling team, they are all inexperienced and will need a lot of seasoning...
...stated, are spent chiefly in the distribution of studies and the process of settling into the life of the college. The last two are spent in preparation for honors or general examinations. The superimposition without extra credit of much reading under a tutor makes proper attention to regular courses difficult...