Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale the President will be in surroundings dear to him and will be in a position to engage in almost any sort of business in which he believes an ex-President can fittingly engage. The analogy between the Yale professorship and Gover Cleveland's relation with Princeton appealed to Mr. Taft strongly, and when many of his close friends and advisers wrote to him approving his acceptance of the chair at Yale he decided to take...
...Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory, the first of the proposed new chemical buildings, is now almost completed. The contractor will be out of the building within ten or twelve days and the moving of the equipment will then begin immediately, in order that the laboratory may be ready for students on the reopening of College, January 3. The new laboratory is unique in this country and is the most perfectly planned and equipped physical-chemical laboratory in the world. Every detail of the construction has been studied with a view toward producing a building which admits of the highest degree...
With the transfer of the delivery facilities and staff to Randall, the service to readers will improve greatly. Recently, Gore has been in the unique position of a library with almost no books. The difficulty of supplying readers has been a constantly increasing one as more and more volumes have been moved elsewhere. Now, however, the concentration of the entire business department in the same building with the books will mean service almost as prompt as it was before the commencement of work...
...salient feature of the figures is the steady gain which has taken place among the western universities during the past year. With the exception of Columbia, for which exact registration figures have not yet been secured, all the eastern universities either show a slight loss or else have remained almost stationary. Dartmouth has shown the greatest loss, being smaller this year by over 100 students, while Columbia has made the greatest gain, followed by the University of California. 1. Columbia, 10,000 2. University of California, 6,659 3. University of Michigan, 4,931 4. Cornell, 4,518 5. Harvard...
...Although this is anything but a brilliant record, it is in no way discouraging in comparison with other years or indicative that the intercollegiate season in the spring will be a failure. The new men who have been added to the squad from time to time have made it almost impossible to develop team-work, and only recently has the team displayed anything like finished form. In the last two games there has been some good work, the weak point being shooting, which can easily be improved in the spring...