Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...learned professions.- (b) For those intending to enter business.- (x) The college graduate is now too much handicapped by the four years spent at college in securing a general education.- (c) For those who intend to enter literary or intellectual pursuits.- (x) The degree of A. M. is now almost necessary for those intending to become teachers, specialists, etc.- (d) This difficulty cannot be sufficiently obviated by lowering the age of entering college to eighteen years.- (1) Twenty-one is the most desirable age for graduation...
...date seems to us better than the old for it gives more promise of making the vacation enjoyable. The first week in April, as far as the weather is concerned, is almost invariably an unpleasant one. Experience has shown that the plans of vacation after vacation have been upset by stormy or disagreeable weather. As we said last year in discussing this same subject before the change had been made, we believe that even if the old recess did divide the year a trifle more equally, this theoretical advantage is much more than counterbalanced by the practical advantage...
...attempt to remove this form of sport from the list of regular track events is a step in the right direction. The bicycle races in the annual intercollegiate games have rarely been thoroughly satisfactory. In the first place the track itself, though well adapted for the other races, is almost always unsuited for bicycles and the result is that accidents to wheelmen are frequent. A tract that is intended for bicycle racing should be especially made for that purpose, but a track of this kind would not necessarily be a good one for the other events of an intercollegiate athletic...
During the first part of this period the production of the metals had entirely ceased, and the amount in existence gradually wasted away, the value meanwhile depending almost entirely on the relation between demand and supply...
...boxes were also draped in pink and were all decorated in a most becoming and elaborate manner. Lander's orchestra of New York, hidden by palms and exotics, rendered exceedingly fine dance music. All of the arrangements for supper as well as the other features of the dance were almost perfect and reflected great credit on the '97 Dance Committee...