Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rung on time, much inconvenience would be avoided. It is very disagreeable to rush over to chapel and find the doors closed, or else just succeed in getting in, breathless, all because some one forgot to give proper notice. Such a blunder, while but a slight one, is yet almost inexcusable in its nature and we trust there will be no repetition...
...Yale's principal annual is the well known Banner which will shortly appear for the forty-second time, having been started in 1842. By the Harvard man, who is accustomed to the plain simplicity of the Index, the artistic part of the Banner is not likely to be appreciated. Almost all of the various eating clubs have a place in its pages, and claims a cut, while many of the societies and athletic organizations head their lists with symbolic head pieces. To be sure many of these are in very good taste, butstill there is much that is rude...
...near being a frightful disaster, directs the attention of every student towards what may at any time produce a far greater calamity, namely, the lack of fire-escapes in several of the buildings in the yard. This question has been agitated yearly by the students until it has become almost a by-word, but of a sudden it may turn into a ghastly sort of joke, unless the college takes some definite action in regard to it. The clamors of the students last spring did have some little effect, apparently, on the corporation, for rousing out of their lethargy they...
...investigation into the causes of the disaster in order that the responsibility for it may be placed where it belongs, and that we may be guarded against the possibility of a repetition of such an occurrence in the future. That the whole accident was due to a careless and almost criminal disregard of the most ordinary precaution on the part of the responsible parties in leaving the building in such a dangerous condition, is evident to those who have examined into the state of the case, and it is due to the corporation, who own the building, as well...
...lower bridge, the lower balcony suddenly gave away, at a point near the centre, the part nearest the river going first. Those on the edge jumped into the water, while some near the doors ran back into the building and others ran down the platforms leading to the floats. almost at the same moment the upper balcony came down. As this gave way neat the centre, all those crowded along the edge were thrown into a mass in the centre, like water thrown into a trough while those at the back of the balcony clung to the building. The trough...