Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shall have won but three games out of eight. This result is due in part to the bad luck which has disabled from time to time some of our best players. The one point which has lost so many games is the weakness and lack of judgment which almost every man has shown at the bat. Few men can bat with confidence and steadiness unless they have had practice against the best pitching - that of professionals. When our faculty made the anti-professional rules, they had reason to believe that Princeton and other colleges would do likewise, and on this...
...whom lived in the same house for reasons of economy. It could but react to the benefit of the students, while the lecture system gave no chance for any intimacy which might arise between student and professor. This system arose at Paris, but was imported to England and almost did away with the original lecture system at Oxford. About this time, the revival of classical learning drove out the study of Commercial Law, though lectures were still given on these subjects. The invention of printing also gave an impetus to learning, through the study of cheap books instead of valuable...
...following is the standing of the different nines up to date in the championship contest. Yale leads, having won all the games, and it is now almost impossible for her to lose the championship. Brown has as yet not won a game...
...times a week, the result, it is very probable, would, in the majority of cases, be better than at present, where the attention is protracted and wearied by a long year's work with recitations often no more than once a week, where the interest of the learner is almost sure to flag before the completion of the course...
...there were nine entries. Trask of Harvard took the lead, running in beautiful form followed closely by Goodwin. Trask struck a tremendous gait and soon all the contestants but Goodwin fell far behind. About a hundred and fifty yards from the finish, Goodwin passed Trask and came in at almost a hundred yards gait, crossing the line in 2 minutes 2 seconds. Trask's time was 2 minutes 5 seconds...