Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Just at present the Association game as played on the other side is under-going a boom in and around Boston. Not long ago two star players, Priest and Westwood, arrived here from England, and were much disappointed at finding that foot-ball as they know it was almost unknown here. They were professional players in England, and on settling here they conceived the scheme of instructing twenty-two athletes in the fine points of the game and forming two elevens to play matches. No sooner had they started in to develop the game than they found that there...
...whole stroke. Most of the crews are made up largely of new men, as the old members are either at present with the 'Varsity or have not as yet gone into training. The sophomore crew has the largest number of old men, while the seniors and juniors have almost none...
...Columbia College crew this year will be made up almost entirely...
...western cities were visited and concerts given. This trip is but one of the many indulged in annually by the Yale musical associations, which show the interest taken in these matters by our sister college. The state of our societies suffer much in contrast. Although receiving invitations almost weekly to visit neighboring cities, no one seems to consider them of enough importance to accept. Trips are taken to such places as Malen and Medford, while places like New York and Philadelphia are wholly neglected. Languor and indifference are the prevailing points in our musical organizations. The recent concert...
When the men reached Cambridge their extravagant feelings were somewhat subdued by the cold. Nevertheless the unanimous verdict was that, barring the fact that they had been almost frozen on the way to Wellesley, and that the sumptuous spread with which they were served would probably give them all dyspepsia, and that they had to pose around the corridors as statuettes after the concert instead of charming the Wellesleyians with Harvard wit, and finally that, when they reached Cambridge, the driver had been obliged to roll them all out of the barge like barrels they were so stiff with...