Word: almost
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University team qualified 9 men as against 13 from Yale, 12 from Cornell, 9 from Michigan, 8 from Amherst, 3 each from Dartmouth, Syracuse, Swarthmore, and Williams, and one from Johns Hopkins. As a result of these trials, Michigan appears to be more formidable than at first considered, as almost without exception every man entered came up to expectations. Pennsylvania and Cornell, however, still look strong, although it seems likely that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will injure the former's chances, leaving Cornell to fight for first place with Michigan. Yale, by qualifying such a large number of men seems...
...this time the Harvard crew is still rather unsettled, owing to the absence of Glass, who has been ill, but the race, coming as it does, almost exactly as month before the Yale contest, will be interesting. Faulkner and Fish are the only men who occupy the same seats as in the race with Columbia on the eleventh of this month, while in the rest of the crew there has been a number of changes...
...voice and an untiring purpose to wake every student within a radius of several blocks. Nor do we wish to contend that the winning of a class crew race is not a better cause for organized noise than the underlying motives for many of the other noisy gatherings, which almost nightly postpone or disturb our slumbers...
Although the eyes of most undergraduates will be focused on the Princeton baseball game, to be played on Soldiers Field this afternoon, we shall await with almost equal interest the result of the dual track meet at New Haven. Unfortunately, both the Harvard teams will go into the contests handicapped by the poor condition of some of their best players and runners; but, despite the apprehension that these reports have caused during the past few days, we hope for and expect a two-fold victory. The baseball team has already shown its "fighting" spirit, and we feel that the track...
...eighth, Cooney attempted to steal, but Howe's throw was perfect and in spite of being knocked over by the baserunner, McCall held the ball and retired the man. Simons accepted seven of his eight chances without an error. The last one was a hard grounder which Leonard almost reached and which Simons juggled long enough for the man to reach the base...