Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- No student who has lived in the college yard the past few years, can fail to remember the jovial and kindly face of Mr. Fredriksen, familiarly known as "P. J." He had almost become one of the institutions of the college, so interested was he for the students, and desirous to do their work in the best possible manner. Besides working for them without sure promise of payment, very many known, by experience, how ready he was to help a man out of a tight place by lending money, and trusting to his honor, for re-payment...
...Fredriksen was taken with pneumonia a few weeks since, lost his consciousness almost immediately, and died after an illness of ten days. He leaves behind him a wife and two young children, and for their future support, very little beyond the uncollected, and in many cases unrecorded debts of the students...
...made the brightest and most prosperous in the history of daily journalism at Harvard. A continuance of this support in the future we beg, that the work of our successors in catering to the daily wants of the students may be made as easy as possible. With this support almost assured we look forward to even greater success for the paper in the future than that which has crowned our own editorial efforts during the year just past...
...only case of disagreement between the gymnasium director and reliable Boston physicians it might well be possible that either could be mistaken in his diagnosis; but such is not the case. Large numbers of the men examined at the Hemenway gymnasium are examined by other physicians, and in almost every case the opinion of the director has been reversed. This leads us to suppose that the present director of the gymnasium, capable as he may be to run that building, is not capable of making physical examinations on which the status of men on our athletic teams is to depend...
...excel in who studies for that profession, and also of the power of rapid thought and coolness, which are necessary for the study and practice of law, being two different things. In such a country as our own this profession offers great advantages to one who has political aspirations. Almost every one who wishes to engage in a political career thinks it necessary to enter it by means of the law. The financial and social inducements are also strong, not that every lawyer gets rich from the practice of law, but it opens so many avenues by which wealth...