Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...performance of Alice in Wonderland, to be given at Copley Hall, Boston, on the evenings of Feb. 17, 18, 19, and 20, are of especial interest to Harvard men, for the cast is made up almost entirely of Harvard graduates and undergraduates. Although the cast is composed wholly of men, the play is to be given seriously, as a classic; and the demand that has come for a matinee performance on the twentieth for children shows that older people are not the only ones interested...
...class race was won by '97 with 1900 a close second, '99 third, and '98 fourth. For the Freshmen, Warren ran best and almost succeeded in passing Vincent on the stretch. Yale won her race against Georgetown but was defeated by Holy Cross. The fastest individual times were made by Fish of Harvard and Fisber of Yale, 47 seconds each. The next best were those of Hollister, Williams and Bigelow, in the order named...
...athletic way work has commenced in its preliminary stages for almost all branches. The crew candidates started in first and are taking daily runs and receiving individual coaching. Although it is as yet too early to criticise, it may be said that the material is but fair, as only three members of last year's eight will...
Secondly, it was objected that "the dozen men immediately encircling the Tree would be almost the only ones to get flowers." This is a physical impossibility. The Class Day Committee propose to fasten on the Tree a wreath of flowers four feet in breadth. It is hard to see how a dozen men could carry off this amount of flowers, to say nothing of tearing them off the Tree. Moreover, there would be no object in carring off more than a reasonable number, for the simple reason that the men behind would not permit it, but would deprive their greedy...
...American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments." The enormous single gifts to Columbia and the youthful but rich University of Chicago throw the benefactions to Harvard into insignificance. In the recent gift of a million dollars to Columbia that institution received almost twice as much at a single time as all Harvard's gifts and bequests for the last three years amount to. The enormous benefactions by single individuals in recent years to Leland Stanford University and the University of Chicago have built up in a few years powerful educational institutions which...