Word: almost
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...considered an essential part of a man's college training, and in most of the colleges regular athletic departments have been established. In order to fill the position of an instructor in such a department completely a man should have had a University education, and these positions are almost always filled by graduates of some university. Yale is well represented in this direction, and so is Princeton, but it is doubtful if Harvard has a single graduate who is now filling the positlon of instructor in athletics at a university. Several institutions have applied to the Harvard authorities for students...
...Roosevelt is not known, and to whom it does not represent a man who has always shown the deepest loyalty to his Alma Mater. As a speaker he is enthusiastic and eloquent and invariably entertaining. Mr. Roosevelt has consented to come to Cambridge, though his time is just now almost wholly taken up with his work in New York. The subject of the talk has been announced as "Playing Football for Harvard," but Mr. Roosevelt is going to talk of the "Harvard Spirit" in athletics. The Yale spirit has become almost a bye word, but one seldom hears...
...feel that the outlook in athletics this year is a very bright one. There is much excellent material in almost every team, and we look forward to a more thoroughly successful season than Harvard has known for some time past...
...another evil and a much more serious one that it will be well to speak of again and that is the poor ventilation of the recitation rooms. With the rapidly increasing number of men who are forced to use these rooms, the present system of ventilation has become almost intolerable. If the truth were told it would probably be shown that a large proportion of the cases of sickness that occur during the college year may be traced directly to these ill-ventilated rooms. Such a state of things is deplorable, and it cannot be excused on the ground that...
PHILADELPHIA, March 19.- The Columbian University, of Washington, D. C., and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have sent entries for Pennsylvania's race meeting of April 25. This will be the first appearance of the "Techs" in Philadelphia, they having competed in New England almost exclusively. They now hold the championship of the New England Intercollegiate A. A. and will undoubtedly be represented by a strong team...