Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Beckwith, '88, S. of Mines, overreaches, and so is almost always behind time. He does not start on his recover quite soon enough; does not feather long enough; gets his oar over too much on the catch, but lets it turn back, just before going into the water, which makes the blades enter the water clumsily...
...ball was placed and fell almost immediately into Hood's stick. He dodged by several men and threw goal number four in just one minute...
...that when each spring reminds us of a growing practice among the students detrimental to the appearance of the yard, some attention ought to be called to the matter. We refer to the custom of walking across the grass. Whenever there is a large plot of grass it is almost certain to be marred by a long winding path, which remains year after year, despite the efforts of the college constabulary to obliterate it. Fertilizers and non-fertilizers have been tried in vain. There is, however, only one means by which this objectionable feature of the yard can be inadicated...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I was not a little surprised, though not at all displeased, at the almost brutal attack the Advocate makes in its issue of yesterday on the venerable Harvard Union. To tell the truth, the Advocate's savage strictures seem to me to be the more unfeeling, because they are undoubtedly true; where the fault lies, and how it is to be remedied, is the awkward question which must be soon decided. There is an abuse, quite as had as the rest, which the writer of the editorial in question did not point out, and that...
...lives. In 1866 the Collegian was founded, but lived only a few months. Its successor was the present "Advocate." The story of the past life of this paper is exceedingly well told, and, because all the Harvard papers have been in one way or another so closely related, it almost embodies a complete sketch of Harvard journalism. The catalogue, at the end of the pamphlet, is not only a list of the editors of the "Advocate," but contains lists of the dates, classes, college societies, and publications after graduation, which have reference to each member of the different boards. Thus...