Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year ago the colleges were disorganized by the necessities of war and the changes they had to make to meet the demand for officers' training camps. As educational institutions they had almost ceased to function. They were military camps first and colleges afterward...
...small army of yearling athletes, a great many upperclassmen make use of the pools, the basketball court, the bowling alleys, the handball courts and the array of apparatus which lines the walls of the gymnasiums. In squash, in the courts of the Randolph Gymnasium, more men exercise than in almost all the rest of the informal squads put together. Daily the fourteen courts are filled at half-hour intervals from 1.30 until 6 o'clock affording a game to over...
Although this reduction in the number of players would largely do away with the system of team play that has been fostered by Alfred Winsor '02, it would add much to the chances for individual brilliancy. In Canada the six-man game has been adopted by almost all of the leading teams, and this will undoubtedly have its influence on the proposed change here...
...system, practically no effort has been made to decrease the amount of required class work, the number of weekly tests, or routine labor. The work of individual investigation and reading with the tutor, which is the very aim of the system, has suffered, and has necessarily shrunk to an almost negligible amount...
...members of the football team have almost unanimously expressed themselves in favor of making the trip, both from personal reasons and on account of the great increase of interest in the University and in the Endowment Fund Drive it would cause...