Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amos W. Stetson, of Boston, has lately donated Wellesley Chilege a fine collection of paintings, which are valued at about $30,000. These paintings, by the desire of Mr. Stetson, will be kept in the new Farnsworth art building, now almost finished...
...spite of the time devoted to study great interest is taken in almost all branches of athletics, and fine grounds are laid out for cricket, foot-ball and tennis, as well as for track athletics, while about two miles from the school is Long Pond, which furnishes a good stretch of water for the crews. Cricket might be called the school game, and every effort is made by the masters to encourage it. Each of the two cricket clubs, "Isthmian" and "Old Hundred," have four elevens, and the school team is picked from these. Base-ball has been forbidden...
...Boston Chess Club last evening and made a creditable showing against Mr. Prentiss Cummings, one of the strongest Boston players. The men sat down at two rows of tables, and Mr. Cummings walked up and down in the middle, making his moves against one player after another, with almost no hesitation. R. D. Brown was the first to resign, having made an unfortunate slip in the middle of his game. L. W. Chamberlin was the next victim, and was soon followed by O. Everett. Meanwhile F. W. Nicolls was making a plucky but losing fight. H. A. Davis lost...
...meeting is announced for tonight of all those interested or who were at any time members of Phillips Exeter Academy. The object is the formation of an Exeter Club. It is to be hoped that there will be an attendance of all the Exeter men in college. Almost all the large preparatory schools except Exeter have flourishing representative clubs at Harvard, but although there has been much said about the formation of an Exeter Club, the graduates of that school, up to two weeks ago, had not seen fit to interest themselves in the matter. An opportunity is now offered...
...facts of the case are well known; that Exeter has been in the past almost entirely a preparatory school for Harvard, but within the past few years an increasing number of men have gone to Yale. This may be due to our nonsuccess in athletics, to a false notion of Harvard methods, or to the energetic efforts of the Exeter Club at Yale. However desirable such a club at Harvard might have been in the past, it now an absolute necessity. That it can do good work and exert strong influence, no one can deny. There are at present ninety...