Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bloodlines of the late revolution shows that the Brazilians acted from deliberate conviction. Brazil has been gradually educated up to a republican form of government, for the monarchy was so limited as to be little less than a republic. The change has met with approval everywhere. There has been almost no flurry in Brazilian goods. Lastly, the republic was inevitable, and the sooner it came the better. The debate for the negative was opened by C. T. R. Bates, '92. He said that the efficiency of any form of government depended on the adaptability of the people...
...being erected on the Yale campus, to be used exclusively for recitation rooms, is fast nearing completion, and when finished will be one of the finest buildings belonging to the college, as well as the best equipped building of the kind in the country. The interior finish is almost entirely oak, the hall way and rooms being finished of that work. The instructors' desks of polished oak are all in position and the students' seats are being fast put in. Particular attention has been paid to the heating and ventilation of the building, some new apparatus being made in this...
...Monthly continues Mr. Carpenter's translation of Ibsen's "The Lady of the Sea." The third, fourth and fifth acts occupy almost the entire space of the magazine, and leave room for only a communication and a poem, besides the editorial department and The Month. It may well be doubted whether the editors are justified imdevoting so many pages to a work not original nor written by an undergraduate, even though it is of so great intrinsic merit as Mr. Carpenter's translation. This article is a great honor to its contributor and to Harvard, but it should not have...
...today, yet ours is a hundred times as powerful. The electric light used to be seen only on the lecturer's table, but now his thunder has been stolen by the practical men of the day, and electricity lights our streets. The German experiments are almost microscopic, though the conclusions drawn from them are enormous...
...recent years stands the record of victories won by the freshman teams. By defeating the Yale freshman eleven at New Haven Saturday, Ninety-three has added another victory to the long list. The game was played under discouraging circumstances,-on strange grounds and before spectators whose sympathies were almost entirely with the opposing team, and the credit of the victory is, therefore, all the greater. For in spite of the disheartening support received from the class, the freshman eleven played a steady game, not so good a game as it is capable of playing, but good enough to defeat...