Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That his body is almost as sore as his head...
...cold, raw weather kept away all but about a dozen members from the shoot yesterday afternoon. The strong wind made good shooting almost an impossibility. This shoot finished the series. The prizes are silver cups and medals. Best possible score, twenty...
...thing the team should bear in mind is that almost all Yale's victories have been due as much to her prestige as to her skill, to the other team going into the contest with the expectation of being defeated. The only times of late years when Yale has been met by a really confident team have been the last two Yale-Princeton games. In the first one, the game was never finished, but it was anybody's game all the way through, while last year's game resulted in a well-earned victory for Princeton. These two games...
...success of this play has attracted the attention of Harvard's professors interested in the classics and the drama, and they have gone to New York for the sole purpose of seeing what is truly a rarity in this country, but that which at Oxford and Cambridge is almost an annual institution, and one which is entered upon with as much zest and enthusiasm as the boat race on the Thames. We trust that the spirit which has promted the University of Pennsylvania to put the "Archarnians" on the stage, merely lies dormant here, to awake at some future date...
...editorial in the Courant protesting in earnest language against the system in vogue at the Sabbath services. The genuine truth of its ideas combined with their strong expression, are what earned for the article its universal attention and approbation. There is a rumor - so indefinite as to almost fail of being a rumor, except that it is not denied by persons of authority - that a new and entirely satisfactory system of supplying the college pulpit will with the ensuing year be adopted...