Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will of the late Henry Seybert of Philadelphia gives almost his entire estato, amounting to over one million dollars, to educational and charitable institutions...
...means let us do away with that prize." We do not deny that the events of the meetings are often rendered uninteresting by the repetition of feats, but this objection applies not only to the candidates for general excellence, but to all who are contesting for the prize in almost any event. We must, therefore, either do away with the prizes, or submit sometimes to be bored. But perhaps the Crimson means that the institution of the general excellence prize induces men to entering events in which they can do but little good work. This may to some extent...
...well for the freshmen to row the whole nine months of the school year? We can best answer this by examining the experience of the case in point. In so long a course of training as nine months, some of the best men who make up the first eight almost necessarily get disabled or get tired of the work, and their places must be filled by men who did not show up so well at first. If we look at the men who have taken the places of those who are either temporarily or wholly laid up, we find, with...
This year we are fortunate in having the games determined on and the dates fixed at the very beginning of the season, an end being thus put to the almost endless negotiations which have hitherto been deemed indispensable. There is no good reason why the precedent thus established should not be followed in succeeding years. making the annual series of base-ball games with Yale as much a fixture as the annual Yale race promises...
...weighs six ounces, is worth, intrinsically, about ten cents and is made of copper. Half a dozen of them would make a pocketful of change, and if one had occasion to carry five dollars' worth of as's about a horse and team would be almost a necessity. In an historical light, also, this collection is very interesting. There are coins struck in honor of Sulla, of Brutus and of Pompey. One of the copper coins contains the liead of Gordianus Africanus II., who reigned forty days. Another shows the ill-fated features of a sixty-six-day emperor...