Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...doubtless inevitable that there should be some manifestations of a childish exuberance of spirits about the yard last night. In justice to the freshmen it must be said that in almost no case of disturbance were they the aggressors. "Bloody Monday Night" dies slowly, but as the lower classes become year by year more influenced by the spirit of manliness and common sense which prevails in the University, the end is sure to come...
...students to take advantage of this opportunity for receiving counsel and advice from older men, who had also been through college, and had met and struggled with the same temptations themselves. The trouble was, he said, that most men came late for this advice, when the harm was almost past remedy, while if they had come before it might easily have been mended...
...fact the general defensive play of the whole line was very satisfactory. The only substantial gains Dartmouth made were once or twice when A. Brewer was pocketed. As usual C. Brewer did some brilliant running and seldom failed to make his distance when called upon. There was, however, almost no interference and the gains were almost all due to the individual work of the backs...
...varsity nine lost yesterday in the first game of the season with Yale, or one might more properly say, in the first game of the season with Carter. The pitching of the Yale man was a hopeless puzzle to almost every Harvard batter. Whittemore and Cook were the only men who did not strike out at all. There have been few pitchers under this year's rules who have been able to run their strike-outs into the double figures. Outside of Carter, the Yale team did not show itself any better than Harvard. When the infielders were given...
...laboratory courses men will be expected to spend most of the time in teh laboratory, that is, they will, as a rule, have to work till five in the afternoon. In Botany and Geology there will be several excursions and in Engineering the work will be almost wholly field work. A new feature this year will be certain lectures on methods of instruction by teachers in the several departments. These will be open without charge to the persons who are enrolled as students in any of the summer schools in the university...