Word: almost
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...figures show an alarming amount of cutting of twelve o'clock appointments on the mornings of the Carlisle and Dartmouth games. There was an average of sixteen cuts in the ten courses held at twelve o'clock on the day of the Indian game, and an average of almost twenty-three cuts on the day of the Dartmouth game. In one course, and not the largest course in College by any means, no less than eighty men cut before the Dartmouth game. This is no record to boast of from the standpoint of undergraduate zeal in things intellectual...
...University be with out him? The thought of a Harvard guided by any other than President Eliot is strange and hard to conceive. His influence has been so indestructibly stamped on the University that one can only with difficulty imagine it without him. To have the source removed seems almost destructive were it not for the fact that it can never be removed in spirit but will continue with us for generations. Few of us have known him personally but each time we have seen him we have admired him a little more; each time we have heard...
...last chance to do so, there does not seem to be enough interest among the men in the class to come out in sufficient numbers to make up even two teams. Furthermore, many of those who have come out do not report regularly for practice, which makes it almost impossible to accomplish any results in developing a team...
...first two sets, Niles and Dana were never in danger, and in the third and fourth Dabney and Gardner were almost invincible, but in the last, the winners completely outplayed their opponents, who could win neither their own serves nor prevent the others from winning theirs...
...both used a high bouncing serve, which Cutting received in the back of the court, while Pearson preferred to play up and take the ball on the top of the bound. Pearson won his games by driving the ball low at the net to Cutting's feet, making it almost impossible for the latter to return...