Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tufts game on Saturday, Harvard will be weakened by the absence of Potter from the regular line-up, as he is still suffering from a strain. He may be able to play tomorrow against Virginia, but will almost certainly be in shape by the end of the week. A rearrangement of the batting order has accordingly been made...
...team lost the dual games with Yale, but came out first at the intercollegiate track meet with the largest score on record. In rowing, the University won its race with Yale handsomely. In baseball, the team was brought into its best form too early, and though it had almost unexampled success with Princeton, lost to Yale. Thus, though the baseball season was in several ways disappointing, the most ill-natured critic of Harvard athletics could no longer find a pretext for the old accusation of favoritism and incompetence...
...slender respect for those who work hard; while athletic triumphs are regarded as of vast importance. Now, it is a very significant fact that this condition is not due in the main to a sincere belief that prowess in sports is intrinsically of greater value than intellectual achievement. Almost every undergraduate would be proud to be told that he was destined in after life to write a remarkable history, or to make a notable scientific discovery and would be shocked to hear that he was to be the best professional baseball player in the world; yet he often submits willingly...
More nearly than any other German play, unless it is Sudermann's "Heimath," of our immediate time, "Alt Heidelberg" is a universal, almost a classic piece. Even mistrustful Paris has seen it gladly, while American audiences long since warmed to its sentiment and its humor. German it is at every turn; in its satire of the petty routine and stiff-backed etiquette of the modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university...
...Barnes-Hochberg's prince lacked romantic illusion--a very difficult thing to attain and one that very few of the impersonators of Karl Heinrich have gained--the speeches and the episodes that the play gives him helps to bring it. Slowness of pace was the short-coming, almost inevitable with a foreign tongue that made momentary gaps and let the interest for the instant...