Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...make acquaintances on the strength of their buttons alone. The buttons serve only one purpose well, and that is of uniting the class by the sort of vague ties of tradition. And just as it is too late for Seniors to win democracy with class buttons, so, to an almost equal extent, is it too late for Sophomores. After the Freshman year, when friendships form rapidly and easily, class buttons can do little for class democracy. In that year, they would be of real value, but even then, they should not be allowed to infringe on their Senior cousins...
...Friends" tells of a young clerk with an "almost Apollic hand," "a thin nose," a "wide nare," and "unplumbed eyes," who reluctantly wins the friendship of a fellow clerk--and proves to be a girl (as the clever reader has discovered some months in advance of the hero). The story lacks novelty, probability and power. "The Process" appears to be just such a tale as no young man should try to tell, a tale outside the author's experience and beyond the present reach of his imagination. The style is a little too deliberately jaunty...
From time to time during the early season all of us wax critical of the men who are playing in the various positions and of the combination which they form. It is now time for these criticisms to be laid aside. Indeed, it is almost certain that they have been, by this time, discounted to a great extent in favor of the strong points. The mass meeting now comes to gather up the various threads of approval and confidence and weave them into one force of enthusiasm. This enthusiasm must be sanctioned by the intelligent, critical approval which has been...
Soccer candidates were called out almost three weeks ago. At that time about forty men reported and the team promises to be unusually strong. There are a number of veterans remaining from last year's championship team and several men from last year's Freshman eleven are showing up well; Coach Burgess, who made a championship team out of last year's material, is again coaching this year, with D. Needham '13, forward last year, as an assistant...
...Opera Association has been looked for with general interest and shows that the interest has not been misplaced. The CRIMSON wishes to congratulate last year's management on the surprisingly large number of seats which it was able to supply at rates so low as to be acceptable to almost any man in College...