Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...small college is, to say the least, not very encouraging. The nine played without any life whatsoever. They soon succeeded in getting ahead of Colgate and then thinking the game was won went to sleep with the result that Colgate tied the score in the seventh inning and almost won in the ninth...
...quarter mile run furnished one of the best races of the day. Bingham took the lead at the start, closely followed by Marshall, while Vincent was almost the last man. He gradually worked his way through, however, and, on entering the stretch, was on even terms with the first Yale man, while Marshall had passed Bingham. The two leaders ran neck and neck for the last fifty yards, Bingham winning by a few feet from Marshall, with Vincent third. The mile run was a disappointment to Harvard. Morgan set a slow pace for three laps, with Coolidge at his elbow...
Before the mile walkers had completed the first lap the result of the race had ceased to be in much doubt. Thrall held the lead almost all the way, and had no difficulty in winning, although closely pushed by Drew...
...shortened. - (a) England has found it unsatisfactory. - (1) At Oxford the greater number graduate in four years; Minority Report p. 7. - (b) It has not been popular in America. - (1), Johns Hopkins has not made a success of it: S. M. Macvane, Harv. Mo., XII, 3, (Mar., 1891). - (2) Almost all our new colleges have adopted the four years plan: Ibid...
...college would derive from it, the benefit to the individual student would be very great. No one who has not been through the experience of sickness in a college room can begin to appreciate the discomforts which go with it. If the sickness is contagious, these are aggravated almost beyond the limit of patient endurance. To the sick man many comforts are necessary which the same man in perfect health is able and contented to do without. Foremost of these is palatable and wholesome food; yet the long distance which food must be carried is generally enough to deprive...