Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hazing was Stopped at Harvard," which has been going the rounds of the outside press for almost a year, is now introduced to the college world as an original production by the Marietta Olio...
...college papers to maintain their traditional custom of annually discussing the evils of compulsory attendance at chapel. A fervent faith can doubtless see in the dim future the final realization of all our hopes in this matter, and therefore those of us who blindly grope, and have almost despaired of any such millennium, should without doubt do their utmost for the final abolition of these evil regulations by means of continual protest and energetic petition. The thought that a distant posterity will profit by our exertions, can fill us with a melancholy satisfaction...
There is something almost pathetic in Yale's present attitude. Condemned by Princeton, Columbia and Harvard, seriously accused by the first, mildly warned by the second, and soundly rated by the third, her lot is not a happy one. There are, we suspect, in this business, a number of very important morals lying hid, that our erring sister would do very well to take to heart. Yet Yale's favorite and traditional attitude is a belligerent one, and we doubt very much if she will take it all with any very good grace; rather, we are led uncharitably to suspect...
Concerning the Yale-Harvard game, the Courant admits that Yale plays a rough game, but maintains that she has a right to dictate in the matter, as "the present science of foot-ball play has been developed almost entirely by Yale;" that "she has never had a player disqualified for illegal acts, but has continually played the game for all it is worth within the limits of the rules," or in other words it is the regular thing for her men to make fouls when anything can be gained by it, until each has had two warnings. - [Phillipian...
...impair our chances with Yale. Furthermore, since we have decided to challenge Columbia, let us have all agreements and arrangements placed in writing, so there will occur no repetition of the unfortunate misunderstandings which, in the absence of written articles, can be fastened on no one, and which almost invariably lead to mutual recriminations and hard feeling...