Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exercise which the game gives is almost the same as that which football gives, except that there is no falling on the ball or "piling" on a player; in addition to this, the play is more aggressive than in football...
There were in all over two hundred men present and the three large dining rooms of the Vendome which had been thrown into one were filled almost to overflowing. It was very soon after seven o'clock when the men filed in and took their places at the long tables. President Fairchild introduced the toastmaster, E. M. Hurley, who called first upon E. R. Mathews, who spoke for the College Press. The speeches which followed were made between the courses. Gott's orchestra furnished very good music in the meantime, playing occasionally popular songs in which the class joined with...
...recent fire in Weld will serve as an example to show what harm the neglect of this small precaution may cause. The fire was discovered almost as soon as it started, but several minutes were lost because the student that noticed it first did not know where to go to ring in an alarm. As it happened the fire was a small one, and was quickly put out by the Department, with no loss but the furniture of the room in which the fire started. If the conflagration had been of a more serious nature, and the same delay...
...first preliminary debate to choose speakers for the contest with Yale will be held this week in the Whig and Cliosophic Societies. A large number of men have entered these trials, almost double the number that entered the preliminaries for the Harvard debate, and, judging by the interest shown and the preparations that are being made, the contest will be a good...
...business of the part was almost uniformly good. Mr. Tree's thrusts with his sword at the empty throne after the play scene, his returning to stroke Ophelia's hair after his great scene with her, and his coming back to strew flowers upon Ophelia's grave, though not such bad touches in themselves, are characteristic of the whole part, which is light and melodramatic. The lines of the part are spoken with sensibility and taste, and the time of the verse is good. But on account of the limited range of his voice, Mr. Tree is unable to bring...