Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exceptionally poor. There is no water within reach on which a crew can practice except the Delaware and Rantan canal. Practice on "dead" water, such as that in a canal is sure to make a crew lack all snap and life, and this has been the trouble with almost all Princeton's crews in the past. No one could ask for a better place than a canal on which to develop a crew's form, but no one could find worse water on which to train a crew to win races, and it is victory, not form that the crew...
Although several of the collectors were not present, reports were received from almost all of them. These reports, were on the whole very unsatisfactory. As yet only about $600, has been subscribed: hardly one quarter of the amount that will be necessary to send the crew to New London...
...incoherent ramblings of an opium-smoking woman, shattered by the insidious habit which has mastered her. As such, it immediately invites comparison with Rud-yard Kipling's "At the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," to which it bears much similarity in conception and to which, it is almost needless to say, it is infinitely inferior. And for several faulty English constructions in the opening paragraph, there is not the excuse of delineating an opium eater's vagaries of thought. In general, this kind of writing demands a power which very few college men possess, and too often lures men beyond...
...Austin Abbott, Dean of the New York University Law School spoke next. What can a people without land be, except lawless? In the Catholic Church, a man excommunicated is out of the community - almost literally. The Indians are in a similar state, they are excommunicated. It must follow that they are lawless and we cannot complain. We demand for the Indians an amenability to law and the right of appeal to law. The alternative...
...There are good men on the 2nd and 3d crews. Some of them may be expected to go to the first crew at any time. All will have a good chance to show what they can do. They will receive all possible attention from the 'varsity management, a thing almost unknown for some years past...