Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same article remarks that the European country where professors enjoyed best treatment in the civil service--and in all Continental countries the teacher is almost invariably a state employee--was, of all nations, Czaristic Russia. Under the "Tchin," or semimilitary hierarchy instituted by Peter the Great and in force up to the revolution, a Russian college professor had the rank and salary of a lieutenant-colonel. Evan in Germany, where a similar, if less rigid, standardization of officialdom prevailed, the professor's rating was that of a major only. --New York Tribune...
...that year, and, although it is now abolished, it remains one of the most striking plays ever devised. Old fashions of the game still tarried on, and the long hair supposedly necessary for all players is one of the most picturesque. In these years the major games evolved almost to present dimensions, and great circling stands rose around the fields...
...careless play of the earlier games was almost completely corrected, but in the last half the Freshmen were unable to stop the long Exeter passes, a fault which was still prominent in the game with Princeton two weeks later. Churchill and Owen again did excellent work in the back-field, each of them making a touchdown in the first quarter...
...play with a fair idea of who was making the plays, conceived the plan. At that time forward passes were unheard of and mass plays with flying wedges were relied on for results. This form of play made the game a confused one to follow. And it was almost impossible for the stands to tell who was doing the work. Furthermore, regular linesmen were not then in vogue, and the spectators were left to guess as to whether the team with the ball had one, two or ten yards to go, or whether it was first, second or third down...
...Harvard, which is in a stage in which there are many more competing colleges than in Connecticut, 64 per cent. of the squad come from Massachusetts, with but extremely few from other states. At Yale, where almost no other large colleges are in the field, the case is entirely different. Her home state, Connecticut, does not lead, but rather ties with two others for second place, while the leader is but two points ahead...