Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale debate is now but a few days off, and the men chosen to represent Harvard have almost completed their long and careful preparation for the contest. On this occasion, as in former years, the three speakers have been greatly helped in their work by the alternate, who has not only studied the question with them, but has also spent considerable time in speaking against them on the other side of the question. It seems only just that alternates should receive more general recognition than they have in former years, and it would be a step in the right direction...
Yesterday afternoon the 'Varsity baseball squad practiced out doors again for the first time in nearly two weeks. The weather was too cold and the ground was too heavy for very good work but the men as a whole did very creditably. The most noteworthy fault was an almost general tendency to overthrow...
...departments of the University, expressing an approval of the Arbitration Treaty, and a hope that it will be ratified as it now stands. Though a large number of names have already been signed, the petition will not be sent in to the senate until it has been submitted to almost every...
There is an unusual amount of interest in track athletics at Columbia this year. Almost all of last year's crack bicycle squad are still in college, and sixty men are in training for the track team...
...teams, but also to the whole student body which they represent. It ought not to be necessary for a head coach to keep constant watch of the records of his men at the Dean's office to see that they do not cut their lectures. It is almost incredible that men should be so careless of the good of every one concerned...