Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this tedious mediocrity which has amazed me year after year. In spelling, punctuation, and grammar, some of the essays are a little worse than the mass, and some a great deal better; but in other respects there is dead-level, unvaried by a fresh thought or an individual expression. Almost all the writers use the same common-place vocabulary-a very small one-in the same confused way. One year, after reading 200 or 300 compositions on "The Story of the Tempest," I found myself in such profound ignorance of both plot and characters that I had to read...
...authors of these discouraging manuscripts were, almost all of them...
...supplemented by the capture of the Oelrichs cup, emblematic of the championship of America, the college may justly feel proud of its representatives in this sport. The work of the twelve during the past year has been faithful and hard,- its result has been shown in the series of almost uninterrupted victories won from strong teams. The lacrosse team of '82 held both the college championship and the Oelrichs cup; the '83 team held the collegiate championship only; the '84 team failed to hold anything; but the lacrosse twelve of '85 has equalled the record of '82 by winning both...
...Friday played against New York University in the final game for the collegiate championship. Our team was the same as on the preceding day, and played with much snap after the stiffness of travel had worn off. The game was at the end very one-sided, our team scoring almost at pleasure. The result was 6 goais to 0 in our favor. This gives the college championship to Harvard, and the college will receive a handsome silk pennant from the Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Association...
...Druids and Stevens Institute. The Druids won after a hard fought contest, by a score of four goals to three. Williamsburg and Harvard played the second game. Immediately after the ball was put in play, Flannery of the Williamsburgh team secured it, ran with it down the field, and almost before the Harvard defence knew what was going on, tossed it to one of the homes, who neatly put it through the Harvard goal. Time, 30 seconds. Harvard then collected itself together for its usual up-hill game, and soon upset all of the Williamsburgher's calculations of victory...