Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...state that it would have benefited them little. The match during the first six innings was very interesting and closely contested. During these innings the Bostons fielded in their usual style and batted poorly, except in the first inning, when they scored four. With our Nine it was almost the reverse. They batted well and fielded poorly, as a general thing. In the latter part of the game the Bostons seemed to bat with much more success, and then the Harvards did the most disastrous fumbling and muffing. In the first half of the game there were many instances...
...Trial Fours on Saturday was not a great success. The water was very rough, and although the race was rowed, it hardly served to show which was the better crew of the two. The boats crossed the line at the finish full of water, and with their bows almost even, Wetmore's crew leading the other by perhaps a foot. Several of the crews which went down to see the race came to grief on account of the roughness of the water. In making their landing at the Union Boat House, the Holyoke four swamped, much to the discomfiture...
HAVING received copies of the rules and regulations of the Oxford and Cambridge Union Societies. I have tried to prepare a brief resume of those rules, in the hope that it will prove of interest to the readers of the Magenta. I must first, however, premise that almost all my information is derived from the printed regulations, so that my readers must pardon me if I make mistakes in statements about matters which are not found in those documents...
...were prominent in the Societies and afterwards attained great prominence in public life. For instance, in a list of one hundred and fifty five Presidents at Oxford there are thirty who are marked as M. P.'s, or as in some way connected with the government, while almost seventy have some distinction either of rank or in the government, in the Universities or the Church. Among the officers at Cambridge have been Macaulay, Earl Grey, Chief Justice Cockburn, Bulwer Lytton, and Archbishop Trench; at Oxford, Earl Stanhope, Gladstone, the Earl of Elgin, the Duke of Newcastle, Robert Lowe, the Earl...
...return of the expedition, almost the last skirmish took place near Porter's Station, where six citizens of Cambridge were killed. Their bodies were brought down, and hastily buried in the old graveyard...