Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game was most exciting throughout and was close up to the fourth inning, when the CRIMSON bunched enough hits to score five runs. After that the Lampoon went to pieces and the CRIMSON scored almost at will. The CRIMSON nine was much superior at the bat, and in fielding made but seven errors to the Lampoon's sixteen. The score by innings...
...fist lesson of their lives is that the young citizen should take no counsel of his feas in attacking an evil to the state; another is that the remedy of war, though heroic, is sometimes costly almost beyond utility, and is justified only by the certainty of failure of all other means...
...regard to the manner in which undergraduates would receive a compulsory course, the opinion of those who have written on the subject in English course, has been almost unanimous in approval, and this we believe is general. It would certainly seem that there could be no danger of the opposition of future undergraduates. Those who come here take things as they find them. If applied only to Freshmen as has been suggested, there could thus be little fear of its meeting with opposition. The idea of a Freshman attempting to clog the administrative wheels of an established course, is rather...
...Faculty committee who have been considering the plans for a new new system of organized physical training have presented a favorable report, and the matter is now in the hands of the Faculty. The report has been discussed at two meetings already and will almost surely come up again next week. It is practically in agreement with the Overseers' report which appeared some time ago in regard to a required course for Freshmen. The members of the committee are Professors Byerly, Hollis, Davis, Grandgent and White, Dr. Fitz, and Mr. Coolidge...
...ignorant and vicious foreigners. It is more important, said he, that we should protect these institutions than that we should seek to benefit the ill-conditioned and unfortunate people of Europe. Whereas, for the first fifty or sixty years after the adoption of the Constitution, our population was augmented almost entirely by people who had had experience in self-government, today the additions come from countries where the people are degraded and the democratic idea hardly exists. It is unnatural to suppose that evolution to a bigher type can take place for many years to come. The speaker then went...