Word: almost
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...have been played, but it is universally recognized that the results have been unworthy of the material and the coaching. The poor showing, however, has not been due to lack of effort, but rather to lack of individual and collective aggressiveness. No one has been guilty of indifference, but almost the whole nine has failed to show the spirit of a winning organization. The near-informal team of last spring, although painfully weak in ability and defeated all but once, played with a spirit that would make the 1919 aggregation unbeatable. Very fortunately, the players themselves realize the cause...
...ours will be a great consummation, a true millenium. The barriers of June will be removed, and we will be in a position to say to our professor: "Verily, sir, the fact that you have so thoughtfully dealt me a C, C plus, B minus, or B, pleases me almost as much as it does...
...agreeable practice of furnishing diversion to an all-too-serious world. "Crowns and Clowns," the play of the year, adds another list of names, some doubtless to be famous in the years to come, to the many lists which have appeared in the frolics of the club for almost a century and a quarter. Curious enough it seems to learn that Joseph H. Choate, Charles Francis Adams and Phillips Brooks, all had their parts in the Pudding plays of older days. We like them all the better for the fact. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the United States supreme...
...some major sport. Including Freshmen, there are 513 candidates for crew, football, track, and baseball. The last registration figures of the College show an enrollment of 2016 men, of whom 288 are unclassified, and consequently ineligible to represent the University in outside contests. Therefore 29 per cent., or almost one out of every three eligible undergraduates, is attending regular practice in one of the four major sports. When this total is combined with the number of men playing golf, tennis, and lacrosse, the percentage would be well up in the thirties...
...first thought which strikes one in connection with the ruinous telephone tie-up which began yesterday morning is, of course, that the strike must be ended, quickly, and at almost any cost. The fault of the situation seems to lie for the most part in the endless "red tape" and departmental ritual of the Post Office Department. The patient and fairly moderate demands of the operators for an inquiry on the part of some thoroughly impartial tribunal were repeatedly held up, and delayed, and referred on. Mr. Burleson has admitted that there is justice in their demands, but does...