Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bust of Gen. Bartlett has been moved from its position on the south side of Memorial Hall to the north side. The change is a great improvement, as, in its former position, the head was turned so as almost to face the wall...
...Although the charge that the Harvard crew, after defeating the Yale crew in such a fast race, was afraid to row Columba, last year, was a preposterous one, still we fear that there were many men from the New York college whose hopes so warped their judgment that they almost believed it. Such men will be relieved by the race just rowed. They will no longer be troubled by perplexing guesses at "what might have been." Of course our defeat this year would not have been an acknowledgement of fear last year, but, luckily, victory makes all argument on that...
...correct index to either ability or industry; it led to superficial work, done mainly with a view to gain high marks, and the motives for study induced by it are unworthy ones." It is not Vassar College alone to which this protest is applicable; it might be urged in almost every public and private school in the country. There is hardly a thoughtful parent who does not know that the object set before his boy and girl at school is, not the gradual healthy development of their mental power and ability for usefulness, but a certain number of marks...
...there is any organization in college which deserves the support of the undergraduates it is the University crew. If success is any argument for support, the crew can certainly present that argument. Defeated in 1881 in a race where the honors were almost equally divided between victor and vanquished, and victorious last year in the fastest eight-oared race ever rowed by two crews in this country, it would naturally be supposed that the Harvard crew could not possibly lack support. In spite of our misfortunes of this year, we send to New London one of the finest crews Harvard...
...ankle and was obliged to stop play. Crocker went behind the bat and Keep took Crocker's place in centre field. The Newtons occupied a good part of the time in "kicking" against the decisions of the umpire, in spite of the fact that his doubtful decisions were almost without exception against Harvard. It is hard to see why the nine should be allowed to play against a nine which makes such an ungentlemanly exhibition while practice with professionals against whom nothing of the kind can be said is still forbidden...