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Word: almost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Whether the Amherst system of almost complete self-government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference Committee at Williams. | 10/15/1885 | See Source »

...needs then is knowledge, and here at Cambridge the school system should be reversed. The exercises of memory and the expression of thoughts should be done in the study. In the lecture room the student should get a fund of knowledge for future use; knowledge, that it is almost impossible to obtain except from an instructor. Why then, should time be wasted in asking questions? Surely all the instructors in the university are only too glad to help one who do nat understand, but there are other times and places beside the hours in the lecture room which should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recitations or Lectures. | 10/13/1885 | See Source »

...paper, but the trouble has been in lack of perseverance. Because a communication is rejected is no reason why a candidate should cease writing, on the contrary it ought to cause him to redouble his efforts, and write until an article is accepted. Communications on timely topics, articles on almost any subject connected with educational, college or athletic matters, are sure to find a place in our columns if they are well written and of sufficient interest to our readers. To eighty-nine we would say that it is customary for freshmen to begin early in the year to write...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/12/1885 | See Source »

...perusal of the above changes, it will be found that the referee is given almost unlimited power; he can declare the ball "down" whenever he sees fit, disqualify a player for off-side or unnecessarily rough play, and declare a game forfeited if either side should seek to gain anything by delay. He is absolute, no one can question his decisions, and he is unhampered by judges. With the proper man as referee, there is no reason why the game should not be entirely freed from its objectionable features...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REVISED FOOT-BALL RULES. | 10/10/1885 | See Source »

After three o'clock it is almost impossible to secure a tennis court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/6/1885 | See Source »

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