Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will testify. The fault with the out-field, however, does not seem to us to be that it is easy to make home runs; for since the erection of the high board fence, with its trellis-like attachment, it is almost impossible to make a home run on the hardest hit ball. It has been proposed that the wall of the church and the side of the fence be marked off into sections by a judicious use of whitewash, and that whenever the ball strikes on the fly in one section it be called a home run; in the next...
...worse done. And he quotes with some energy the fact that the richest Scotchman who ever lived began life in New York as a shop assistant, with a university degree. The most efficient of continental mankind, the Prussian, agrees with the Scotchman, and so in theory does the hardest of earthly workers, the Chinese, though his notion of what education is partly puts him out of court. So in our own day and country do all manner of governing men, who say deliberately, and greatly to their own disadvantage, that you get out of the thoroughly educated more efficient tools...
...examination in Freshman Analytics yesterday has been declared by a former instructor in mathematics to be the hardest paper ever given in Harvard College. It is to be hoped that the faculty will be convinced by this and by last year's paper that analytics is a subject sufficiently difficult to be removed from the freshman year, and placed among the electives...
...interest in base-ball in all the colleges that the nines are to be thus more evenly matched than formerly. The utmost exertion will be required for any nine that takes the pennant. It seems quite probable that victory in every game will belong to that nine which works hardest for it. We haven't the least hesitation in saying that Yale's chances are not a whit better than are those of Harvard; that, if anything, Harvard's are more promising. It is impossible, as yet, to prognosticate anything of either Dartmouth or Amherst, as the practice games...
...Haven, and we earnestly urge all to make every effort to support Harvard on the 28th. There has been much more interest manifested in the Nine this year than last, and this is unquestionably the secret of its success. The season, however, is but half over, and the hardest games have yet to be played. We sincerely hope that the Nine will win the championship, but if not so fortunate, we do not wish it to be on account of a lack of interest or support on the part of the College...