Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Athletic Association are absent, and in the present lack of funds to carry on the athletics. However, the first crew practice was held last Monday, and the hockey team has been working for two weeks on the out-door rink. The manager has arranged for a game almost every week...
...system, a truly equal opportunity for all in physical training, and a removal of the semi-professional spirit. Compulsory athletics we could neither regard as practical nor as advisable. Those who had seen the actual working of compulsion suggested that the opposition which the idea raised in the individual almost totally offset the advantages of the training offered. Although we cannot express an opinion on the matter till a more definite plan is proposed, yet it would seem more reasonable to organize the new system with a view toward extending the opportunities rather than toward requiring the students...
...Isthmus. It was a time to act and not to theorize. As the late President said so cogently himself--"I had to act quickly and I did--and we are now building the canal." Yes, and today that greatest of engineering feats is a fait accompli. This almost insuperable accomplishment is one of the great monuments of President Roosevelt's Administration and one of the least things we can do in his memory is to give the great waterway his great name...
...national collegiate organization comprising some hundred or more institutions is conclusive evidence that "the world 'do move." Coming from an organization that was expressly convened a few years ago (1905) for the purpose of doing away with all forms of collegiate athletics, football in particular, the conversion is almost startling...
...exodus of professors goes steadily on, however, the graduates and undergraduates of the University are commencing to wonder with dismay when the drain upon the teaching staff is to end. A glance at the pamphlet of courses, with its "omitted in 1918-19" extending over page after page in almost unbroken sequence, shows to what a great degree the faculty is depleted by the necessities of war work. And from the faculty already minus too many of its ablest men the continued demands on it are being answered with startling frequency by new leaves of absence...