Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spring pop-concert season opened in Symphony Hall last night, and will continue through the first week in July. The opening this spring has been delayed almost a month, as the orchestra has been playing at the Panama-Pacific exposition, whence they have just returned. The house is all sold out for tonight, but seats may now be obtained for tomorrow night and Friday, which will be Wagner night. The prices are 75 cents and 50 cents for reserved seats, and 25 cents for admission and second balcony...
...stands at Soldiers Field are now almost completed, and should be ready for the Princeton game on Saturday. Owing to the building ordinance lately passed, the work is of permanent construction, steel being used in the frame work...
...Almost exactly a year ago President Lowell spoke in the Union to a body of undergraduates on a subject directly opposite to that of last night. At the time of the excitement over the Mexican situation, the policy of keeping cool, and "keeping our shirts on" was freely advocated. Now we are to take a necessary precaution when the war cloud is nearer than ever before. It is the desire of everyone that mankind be so organized that war will be an impossibility. But to be prepared is no more provoking war, than it would be to abolish the police...
Seniors, the big day is almost at hand. On Wednesday the Senior Picnic, the most-longed-for event of the would-be graduate's career, will take place on Mystery Island, which is all that the name implies. At 8 o'clock hundreds of sportive diploma-chasers will embark on the perilous trip to Marine Wharf, via the surface cars. Two steamers will be provided to transport the unruly mob to the island, and the race which these ocean greyhounds will put up will be worth going miles...
...Godkin lectures, which are given this year by Professor Dupriez, visiting professor from the University of Louvain, have been unusually interesting to students of government. In spite of this, the attendance has been small, in fact confined almost entirely to outsiders. This is doubtless due to the fact that little is known of their character. This series of four lectures, given in French, is on the subject of "Proportional Representation in Belgium." Professor Dupriez is one of the greatest living authorities on proportional representation, and he describes a system which he himself helped to institute in Belgium. His views...