Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...time,- with that of the large American universities, where, as he said, the athletic interests were committed entirely to the members of the teams, while the rest of the students sat on sofas, smoking cigarettes and betting on the results. Such a statement revealed, of course, an almost total ignorance of the athletic life of Harvard, and the effeminate picture presented of the average college man of today was too absurd to be anything but amusing...
Hopkinson's then got the ball by several long runs, on ninety-eight's two yard line where they lose it. In the second half the playing was almost entirely in the centre of the field, neither goal being at any time in danger...
...museum. Such an ungainly number as now exists has many attendant disadvantages. Much time is always taken for the assembling of students at each lecture hour. And, which is a still more serious difficulty, that personal relation between instructor and student which is possible in a smaller course is almost entirely absent...
Professor Kittredge gave the first of the lectures under the auspices of the Cercle Francais last night in the Fogg Art Museum. Almost every seat in the hall was filled. The subject had been announced as "The Romances of the Round Table in England;" but Professor Kittredge said that was too broad a subject, and that he had selected instead what he considered to be the best of these romances, namely "Sir Thomas Gawain and the Green Knight...
...defense of which opposing journals are maintained. In college, men are inclined to unite in the support of a paper in much the same way that they do in the case of a 'varsity athletic team. Their support may vary in strength from year to year, but they are almost as little inclined to countenance a division of interest in one case as in the other...