Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pudding building, fifty-nine presented themselves. The quality of the material was very good, and a large number of men tried for each of the parts except tenor. For this part only two men tried last night, and three at the first trial, making five in all, a number almost too small with which to start the club. It is hoped that if there are any men in the class who can sing first tenor who were not present at either of these trials that they will be present at the first rehearsal of the club, when another opportunity...
...team play was equally good on both sides and there was almost no slugging. Both teams evidently had to play their best and '93's victory was not due to any accident, but was fairly earned...
...foot ball game which was witnessed Saturday was upon the whole very discouraging for our prospects. The eleven is certainly far from being in anything like a satisfactory condition, and Saturday's game disclosed only too obviously its weaknesses. Extended criticism is almost uncalled for,-the faults of the eleven are too obvious, nor is it our purpose in this column to make any individual criticism. But it is manifest that the condition of the eleven is very bad, and that of late it has made little improvement. There is a marked lack of team work as there was last...
...match yesterday afternoon for the College Championship, Hoppin '93, again won the championship by defeating Chase '95, the winner of the recent tournament. The match was much more exciting than the score indicates as almost all the games were deuce games, and for a while things looked badly for Hoppin...
...third of Professor Peabody's lectures on Social Ethics. He spoke on the question of marriage and divorce, their history, relation, and significance. Divorce is the negative side of the question; it is the symbol of inconstant family life. It has increased within the last thirty years almost three times as fast as the population, and it has come to be granted for trivial and even nonsensical reasons. The looseness that pervades the whole system has brought with it a moral shock and a consequent great social evil...