Word: almost
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...eleven had an almost perfect day for their game with the Williams team Saturday, and about 1000 people gathered on Jarvis to see the game. Williams had fairly good sized men, but lacked the skill necessary for a strong game and proved no match for our team. Harvard kicked off at 2.55 with the sun and wind in their faces, but immediately forced the ball down the field until Bonsal secured a touchdown after a sharp run. The ball was punted out and Austin kicked the first goal for Harvard. Shortly after the kick-off, Hartley and Cabot...
Princeton's foot-ball team is almost made up this year of new men, only two of the present team having played through last season. [Yale News...
...Princeton there is a great veneration for old customs and traditions, which precludes a just comprehension of more modern ideas. This is evinced in the various actions taken by the faculty in regard to athletics. These consist of aggressive restrictions whose haste and indiscretion has to be repented in almost immediate concessions. But even these so-called concessions are sufficiently inadequate to indicate the reluctance with which they were made. And now the Princetonian has come under the displeasure of the Faculty by its too free expression of opinion. Not that that paper was guilty of any breach of respect...
College Libraries form the subject of a little discourse in the Boston Post : "The time of year is close at hand when a great many hundred young men and women will enter upon college life ; almost as many more will leave it, and a still greater number will advance a stage upon the real or apparent path of knowledge. A word of advice may not be out of place, at least to those who are yet this side, of their journey's end so far as a college diploma constitutes the goal. There is a too prevalent idea...
Concerning what a college paper should be there now exist a great many ideas, perhaps almost as many as there are college papers published. For by looking over the representative papers from our different colleges we find them to be conducted in many instances upon entirely different plans, and in their exchange columns are able to find many different suggestions as to how other papers should be carried on. We find that the tendency in our opinion, especially among our western college papers, is too much towards literary effort, that is too much space is frequently given for essays, orations...