Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...elective pamphlet will be greatly changed this year. The courses in almost every department are being revised. The pamphlet will probably not be out before June...
...chief motive for inducing men to enter. The value of the prize lies in what it represents, not in its cost. The cups, even plain three quarter pint cups, represent victory as much as silver medals would. As at present awarded, they have definite meanings, and have become almost an institution. If medals were substituted would not men get tired of them also in a year or two? It must be remembered that at one time the H. A. A. used to give medals and changed at the request of some prize-winners. If the association could afford expensive prizes...
Professor Louis Dyer lectured last night under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club, on "Greek Religion and Apollo." The lecturer said in brief that by the aid of excavations we are approaching a just appreciation of the Greek religion,-a religion which has supplied later religions with almost as much as the religion of Israel has. While Israel has given Christianity the idea of an all powerful and omniscient god-head, the Greek religion has contributed divine love, grace and purity. Mercy is the predominating quality of all Greek gods and goddesses, of Apollo, Aesculpius, Dionysus, and Demeter...
...winning nine. We hope that this plan will be speedily carried into effect. A league to which no member of the university, second, or class nines is eligible, will be a great inducement to men who are interested in base ball but have not made a specialty of it. Almost every man in college not engaged in other branches of athletics can play the national game to some extent and enjoys it. By getting them out on the field in club and table nines, new material may be developed for the class or even the university nines. At least...
...leading paper of the May Atlantic is upon "Henrik Ibsen, his early career as Post and Playwright." The article is almost entirely biographical and not critical. The writer makes the curious assertion that Ibsen is Danish and not Norwegian, as the Norwegian blood which may have been introduced at several points is only through the females of his line ! This is ignoring mothers with a vengeance ! "Sir Peter Osborne" is an account of the father of Dorothy, wife of Sir William Temple, whose letters have been recently published. "Rudolph" is a darkling sort of story, not good...