Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...McCulloch, was "An Historical Study of the French Ballade." It contained short treatises on the different famous writers of the ballad. The speaker said that many writers of this class of poetry have failed to succeed because of the heaviness of their work. In fact lightness and vivacity are almost indispensable to popularity in ballad writing...
...Brown University nine defeated the B. A. A. team at Providence Saturday by a score of 12 to 2. The Brown men hit Soutter hard and played an almost perfect fielding game. Phillips Andover beat the Boston College nine at Andover, 14 to 0. Trinity College defeated Columbia at Hartford Friday...
Welsh, of Columbia, is said to clear over 10 feet in the pole vault. Dr. Savage, of the Berkeley Athletic Club, says that Columbia would be almost sure of winning the intercollegiate cup this year if the methods of scoring had not been changed. He counts on Columbia's taking both hurdles, the broad jump, mile walk and pole vault...
...lack of class feeling shown by the freshmen in neglecting their crew is deplorable. The last instance of it has been shown in failing to engage a tug to follow the class races and encourage the '93 crew. In former years the freshman class has almost invariably filled at least one tug, and sometimes two; but less than twenty '93 men showed enthusiasm enough to sign for one. Subscriptions, also, are slow in coming in. The manager is already seriously hampered in paying current expenses. Unless the crew is far more liberally supported, the race with Columbia will have...
...common belief sent all souls to Hel. This was a gloomy land, vast and pathless, in one part of which was the hall of the reigning goddess. A wall and river which surrounded this seem to be almost identically the same as those which the higher families believed were about Walhalla. Much dispute has arisen as to the unity and consistency of the beliefs in Walhalla and Hel. Some of the Eddic songs speak of Hel and Walhalla separately. while others do not mention the latter at all. The beliefs are inconsistent, because by one all souls are sent...