Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...extensive and elaborate book-keeping, which is an essential part of his work. The case is similar, though perhaps not so bad, with the offices of the Dean and the Secretary. In all, the need of more space and more thorough equipment is so great as to be almost imperative...
...Yale campus was almost entirely deserted during the vacation, but few of the students remaining in town. The Glee Club and Nine had enjoyable trips South, notwithstanding the seven defeats which the latter received. It is difficult for the Nine to fully do itself justice on such trips, owing to the difficulty of keeping in good training during such constant travel...
...Alma Mater which causes so many of our athletes to remain in active training during the coming vacation, which is to bring to other members of the University much welcomed rest and recreation. We believe that this self-imposed discipline which is so common as to seem at times almost commonplace, is one of the most useful and moral influences of the University life, and in its effects reaches far beyond the men immediately concerned. The mere winning or losing of a race may in itself be of little importance. The ennobling thing after all in athletics is the self...
...expense of the course can be made much smaller than would at first seem possible by a system of clubbing together for the purchase of the books, which can almost all be obtained in cheap editions, or taken out of the library. While the course will be an unusually interesting one, it will be seen that it will require a fair amount of outside work, and no one who is unwilling to give sufficient time to the subject should elect it. The primary object is to make men read current literature intelligently and to establish sound principles of criticism...
...doubts as regards another big international tussle have been set at rest by the receipt of an intimation to the O. U. A. C., stating that the American universities have resolved to send a picked team over in July. The formal challenge is expected almost directly, when the Oxford and Cambridge authorities will meet and arrange preliminaries straight away. And tell it not in Gath, further challenges in the same direction are quite within the range of probability within the next few weeks, but we must dissemble awhile...