Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot ball team was favored with an almost perfect day for its first game yesterday, and a large number of students gathered on Jarvis to see it open the season...
...second three quarters opened rather inauspiciously for Harvard, for a miss by Biddle brought the ball almost over our goal line. After several very close but unsuccessful tries-at-goal from the field by Beattys, the Wesleyan half-back. the ball was gradually forced away from our goal, chiefly by good kicking of Austin. Hartley secured the ball in a scrimmage, and by a quick dash scored another touchdown from which no goal was kicked, but shortly after Austin received the ball from the quarter back and kicked a neat goal from the field...
...character of the former publications, would yet be free from many of the disadvantages under which they labored, and would possess a much wider range of possibilities than was open to either the Herald or the Crimson. We believe that a first-class college daily is now almost a necessity, and we also believe that it is possible to maintain one here at Harvard. It will therefore be our endeavor to make THE HERALD-CRIMSON first-class in every particular, and a fit representative paper for Harvard. We shall do our utmost to maintain a high tone throughout its columns...
...quandary and either of these is an unlikely one. The first is that a man be hired who can give material aid to the foot ball, base ball, and athletic interests and that these associations divide the expense. The trouble with this way is that such a man is almost impossible to find...
...other way which is almost beyond hoping for is that some graduate will leave money enough to endow a professorship of athletic studies. In my opinion such a professorship would be of more advantage to Harvard than a professorship of Hebrew or Semitic languages but I fear there is no one among the number of those graduates who wish to do something for their Alma Mater who goes with me. If the salary of such a trainer as is wanted could be raised by subscription for a couple of years, I think it very likely that the receipts from...