Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arrangements for the class crews at the boat-house are almost completed. The south-east room has been fitted up with about thirty-five lockers for the use of the three upper classes. A stove will be placed in the centre of the room, and a shower-bath in one corner will be supplied with water by a pipe running from the 'Varsity bathroom...
...witnessed the game of foot-ball which took place at the South End grounds Saturday between the Techs. and a picked team which could hardly be said to be composed of Harvard graduates. The day was damp and drizzly, and a dense fog hung over the field, at times almost obscuring the players from sight. Play began at 4 o'clock, Harvard having the kick...
...beating R. D. Sears, '83, three straight sets. They played on the Longwood grounds, only a few witnessing the games. Mr. Sears, who holds the championship of the United States, played his worst, and by the third set was thoroughly rattled. Clark, on the other hand, played an almost faultless game. None of the sets were "love" sets. Score...
...nineteenth century is now dominant in the chief centre of British culture and scholastic life. Harvard University, in its way, has followed the changes which have been observed at Oxford. More and more the religious tests of the professorships have been relaxed or removed, until they have almost entirely disappeared. The community would not tolerate an atheist as the Harvard president any more than an atheist would be tolerated as the vice-chancellor of Oxford, because atheism has not yet been tolerated in good society; but an important principle has now been vindicated for both institutions - the principle that learning...
...HAVEN, Nov. 5. The whole college has been saddened of late by the death of Mr. Andrews of the senior class. While gunning at a point near New Haven his gun was accidentally discharged, killing him almost instantly. Death occurs so infrequently among us that it is very startling when it comes...