Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This latter action constitutes a most important step, and the proposals cover almost all cases which are likely to occur in regard to men rated "unclassified" or as "dropped Freshmen." The proposals as they were passed by the committee chairmen are as follows...
...doubt can now exist that intercollegiate athletics must and will be maintained. They are the one means of making the University a unit. With so many students, living over so scattered an area, it is almost impossible to arouse a feeling of common interest on any other matter. But every Harvard man will rally to the defense of his team. A football game in the fall creates an enthusiasm throughout the University such as nothing else could...
Next Monday the crew and baseball seasons open. Hockey has but two more weeks to run. The great opportunity to formulate a plan on which all sports could base their revival is almost lost. We are in danger of lapsing into a rut worse than that of the informal system of last year...
...when civilized nations will arbitrate what part of their population shall die," said Professor Edward Warren at the Law School reception last night. Professor Warren said that although he had the highest hope in the League of Nations yet the laws of evolution and the Malthusian theory present an almost impossible problem. He thought that to substitute "the force of law" for the "law of force" would "tax human ingenuity to the utmost." Yet he believed that in time the race might overcome more of its primeval instincts as it had conquered some in the past...
...adopt the new 'primary suture' system of surgery; and to make it effective it was necessary to carry on even up at the front lines. This new system was not begun until last June; by it a wounded man is well in three weeks, instead of six months, and almost ninety percent of the operations are successful...