Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...VIII, and XI, XXII, of our Iliad. Subsequent scholarship has confirmed Grote's main proposition, while changing considerably the limits of his Achilleis. Within the last decade several eminent German scholars have made a very careful study of the question. Chief among these is Christ, who has brought forward almost conclusive philological evidence in regard to the order of composition of the parts of the Iliad. It is certain that they were composed in an order very different from that in which we have them. The question of authorship is more uncertain. One poet probably conceived the main plan...
When the four Yale and three Harvard men started on a mile run the rain was driving hard, and the men were also begrimed with mud which was splashed up from the track. There was considerable uncertainty about this race, as Ellsworth of Yale was almost an unknown quantity. He had done well last year and it was rumored that he had had much harder training this year than ever before. Nichols and Carr set a very hot pace and Nichols plowed through the mud in the fast time of 4 min., 35 4-5 sec., taking first place. Ellsworth...
...Yale did not take all three places as it was rumored she would do. Sherwin and Wheelwright were the Harvard men in this event, and Briggs, Cartwright and Ryder the Yale. After vaulting a short time the water was so deep in front of the bar that it was almost impossible for the men to get any foothold. Spades were produced, ditches dug, the water swept into the latter, and cinders strewn in front of the bar until artificial ground had been made for the vaulting to proceed. Ryder of Yale dropped out of the competition when...
...considering the causes which brought the victory Saturday, we are led to glance back at the work which our track athletic team has done in past years. We find that it has been almost uniformly successful. Harvard won the Mott Haven cup, with only two exceptions, for eleven successive years. During a great part of those eleven years, we also note, Harvard was eminently unsuccessful in other branches of athletics. What was the cause of success in one case and of failure in the other, may not have been clear to us at the time. Now, however it certainly...
...length and a half behind at the end of the first five strokes. Ninety-three had the lead the first few strokes but soon gave place to Ninety-two, Ninety-three being third. The seniors were rowing a quick, powerful stroke-fully thirty-eight to the minute-and almost all of the way down the course kept up this number...