Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Practice began this year on April 1, having been delayed almost a week by the unfavorable weather. Almost twice as many men reported to Captain Wendell and Coach Haughton as last spring and the attendance has continued good throughout the two weeks. There has been considerable individual coaching and some scrimmaging which has developed new material, and prepared the squad with a good foundation for practice next fall...
...Freshmen played a nine made up almost entirely of regular University players, which was won by the Freshmen 7 to 3. They had little difficulty in hitting the second string University pitchers...
...that of the University of Missouri, which runs the daily paper of the town, on a thoroughly businesslike basis. There is one at New York University, which has the advantage of being in immediate touch with the centre of progressive journalism, and can therefore obtain the advice of almost any prominent metropolitan newspaper man. The Pulitzer bequest is to be used to start a school of journalism at Columbia along entirely new lines. These departments are not liable to the single criticism which is sometimes thrown at our business school: that it teaches a man to head a business...
...strengthened by the acting, here the least successful of any of the evening. The characters speak words that attest to their horror, but their aspect conveys no sense of feeling whatever. Mr. Lyding was in manner and appearance admirable as the father; but his contempt for lines was almost epic. He should play in "Sumurun...
...Harvard University was the first in America to take up applied science. It had the first professor of engineering. Today, beyond question, especially as exponents of the professional side of Applied Science, the staff is extraordinarily strong. The Engineering School, like the Law School and the Medical School, is almost universally regarded as standing extremely high...