Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brown, first all students are required to be present at chapel exercises at 8.30 A. M. every morning (except Sunday). Students who reside out of town and come in on trains are permanently excused if the train time causes them to be behind chapel time. Almost any reasonable excuse is allowed, but an excessive absence is not allowed. The unexcused absences carry certain demerits. Chapel exercise is regarded as one of the regular college exercises, and is marked as such. Compulsory Sunday attendance at church is a mere farce. A great number of students have never signified what church they...
Just before the close of the exhibition of the Rice fire escape, a slight accident occurred. As one of the students was sliding down the escape, and when he had almost reached the ground, the rope broke, causing him to fall a short distance. No injury was done except to the reputation of the fire escape...
...collapsed before now but for the enthusiasm of a few individuals and for the sympathy and encouragement of the National Amateur Lacrosse Association. It is certain had the lacrosse men depended entirely for aid on the college at large the record of the lacrosse team would not present the almost uninterrupted series of victories that it does. But still, that external sympathy could not take the place of home support was shown by the fact that for about two years lacrosse hung between life and death. Indeed it was deemed of so little consequence, and the attempt to introduce...
...October 21, 1881, shows: The writer, after discussing the rights of the lacrosse team to use the land granted it by President Eliot, and stating that the "game was of very little importance to the university," goes on to say that since it interfered with tennis, "it has been almost an unmitigated nuisance." This is the first clear indication of the growing power of lacrosse, since the Advocate thought it worth while to attack it. But lacrosse now began to boom. On Feb. 23, 1882, it was voted to "invite the lacrosse associations of Princeton, New York University and Columbia...
Towards the middle of October the entrances fall off, and in the latter part of that month, and through the months of November, December, January and February almost cease, showing that all who intend to join have done so before the first of November...