Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game this year is almost a week later than last year...
...hardest of the season. Bordman and Paine, the hares, laid their trail out to Tufts, College and from there over toward West Cambridge. Here they went through some very swampy territory for about a mile. The ground was so soft that the men sank to their knees at almost every step. They finally made the "break" on Concord avenue, about three-quarters of a mile from the gymnasium...
...their individual weaknesses since ample opportunity has been offered to remedy them, while the utter lack of unity in the team is due, to a certain extent, to the constant changing in the makeup of the eleven. The tackling is the most noticeable weakness and affects the playing of almost every man on the team. The halfbacks have not overcome the habits of dropping the ball...
...crowd at the Chapel last night found the curiosity which had prompted them to come soon changed to intense interest by the sermon of Protap Chunder Mozoomder. His bearing was impressive, and its effect was admirably borne out by his remarkable command of English. In forcible language, but with almost no reference to his notes, he delivered a sermon which will probably not soon be surpassed in the Chapel. He said...
...that the board walks are being put on the paths, it will perhaps be pertinent to make a suggestion with regard to them. When the snow is deep the only good footing in the yard is on these walks. Almost everywhere they are sufficiently broad, but they should be so everywhere. This is decidedly not the case from Sever to University. More men pass back and forth here than anywhere else in the yard, and in passing and repassing one another, they are often shoved about and crowded most unpleasantly, and not infrequently are obliged to step off into...