Word: almost
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...Lewis '08 opened the debate for the affirmative by describing the history of Napoleon's concordat with the Pope from its adoption to the present day. Almost from the beginning it was realized that a fracture was the inevitable result of such a system; while the steady growth of the functions of the State, and the decline of the temporal power of the Church made the existing relations between the two absolutely incompatible. A. C. Lurie '09 continued the argument, showing how the Separation Act of 1905, planned to meet the necessity made clear in the first speech, was entirely...
...only two point winners in the field events, while Yale has lost five, and it should therefore be exceptionally strong in these events this spring. The University should win the high jump and the shot-put, the broad jump is undecided, and the pole-vault and hammer-throw will almost surely go to Yale. Of the five places won in the intercollegiate games last spring, four were won in the field events, and all but two by men still in College...
...instinctively able to pick men and get the best work out of them, will be a step towards victory over Yale. But even such a coaching machine as Yale's could not bring about our victory over a college which can put not one eleven into a game, but almost two. If we will win, we must recruit Harvard with winning material by every legitimate means; we must all make it our business to secure the best athletes from preparatory schools, and not sit passive while other colleges bestir themselves; in short we must make a business of our football...
Such a situation is far from desirable, as it attaches an importance to football all out of proportion to its real value. It demands practically the exclusive attention of the squad for more than two months, and for almost as long absorbs the interest of a vast crowd of sideline shouters; and it disregards the real object of College sport--a general participation in healthful exercise for recreation and larger acquaintance. It is worth while considering whether the whole system of athletics should not be changed, either to one completely intra-college, or, as suggested by Mr. R. A. Derby...
...address from the steps of Holworthy said that twenty years ago nobody knew anything about John Harvard. His parentage, education, and life were a mystery. Since 1884, through the researches of a Harvard man, Mr. Henry F. Waters '55, more has been found about John Harvard than about almost any other man of colonial times. We know that he and all his kindred were tradesmen--butchers, cloth makers, coopers, goldsmiths--and that for several generations they lived in Southwark, one of the humblest quarters of London...