Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...style of the late Georgian period, a light-colored granite being used in the construction of the exterior. The low square windows which predominate, the extreme light and narrowness, and the massive tower which co-ordinates the two wings, all tend to lend an appearance of stern, almost forbidding severity to the structure...
...river approach to its property at the Watertown Arsenal. This objection was weakened materially by the construction of the West Boston drawless bridge and the Charles River dam and since then progress has been more rapid. One by one the obstacles have been surmounted, and now there is almost a certainty that a fine new bridge will span the river before another year has passed.--Boston Transcript...
...international track meet can not fail to be successful. From the available data it is almost impossible to make any adequate comparison of the opposing teams. But whatever the result, this meet offers abundant proof that, although keen rivals at home. Harvard and Yale are at bottom thoroughly united by the same interests...
...team must report on that day and absolutely no excuses will be accepted. There will be no preliminary work as there has been during the past few years, so it is essential that every man should report in the best condition. The squad will start hard work almost immediately in order to prepare for the early games, the first of which is scheduled for just two weeks from the day practice begins. All candidates should feel it their duty to take some kind of care of themselves during the summer, and should practice kicking, passing, or even handling a football...
...first time since 1903 a Harvard baseball team has won the Commencement Day game at New Haven. In every way the result is of the greatest possible satisfaction to Harvard men. Playing on a strange field on the one day of the year when the home team is almost always victorious; at a time when factors other than unfamiliarity with the grounds tend to put a high premium on steadiness, the Harvard nine played championship baseball to the end. Of the coolness which the team developed despite every inducement to the opposite, too much praise cannot be given. Throughout...