Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Skating, which is the only out-door sport available during the winter, has always been popular at Harvard. Almost every afternoon when the ice is in good condition a crowd of men collect at Fresh Pond to indulge in the exhilarating game of hockey. There are, however, several drawbacks to the enjoyment of these games. The muckers, who always congregate on the pond in large numbers, are apt to interfere, or at least take part, which is almost as bad. Frequently there is no ball at hand, and a wooden block has to be substituted with very...
...good foot-ball to not only push and drag rushers out of the way, but even to butt, seize and pull to one side ends and halves who are running across to tackle. It is no exaggeration to say that this is, even now, not the exception, but almost the custom, in spite of the rulings of the umpires. In fact, these very men who should have stopped this have ruled too carelessly upon interference, while being very stringent regarding foul tackling and slugging. No umpire can bee too harsh in ruling upon striking, nor indeed upon actual foul tackling...
...heavy charging of Harvard, they stubbornly fought the ground inch by inch, and never used their best runners until they had driven the ball by a kick well down. In this way they had ever a strong fresh man for a dash up the goal, and an almost infallible kicker to send the ball skimming over...
...faculty persist in enforcing. If our team of this year could be allowed to practice with professional teams we would at least stand on an even footing with Yale, but without this practice, which the Yale team has, we are handicapped from the start. The freshman class has done almost nothing so far in regard to its base-ball team. Captain Bates has had very hard work to get even a dozen men to train. This ought not to continue. A large number of freshmen should be trying for their team...
Professor Goodwin's new edition of his "Greek Moods and Tenses" will be almost double the size of the present volume and will consist of four hundred pages. There will be important alterations throughout the whole book, notably in the treatment of conditional sentences...