Word: much
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...playing of the University was much improved over the game displayed against the sailor nines, which had scored victories previously. Stronger pitching was noticeable...
...work, and in prospect of the further reduction next year in the number of students attending Harvard College, especially in the three upper classes, it is reassuring to look over that elaborate bill of fare for 1918-19, the "elective pamphlet." It leads one to exclaim with Ulysses, "Tho' much is taken, much abides." In spite of a blank here and there to be replaced at a later day with a teacher's name, in spite of the recurrences of "Omitted in 1918-19," it is clear at a glance that there will be no dearth of sound instruction...
...will cross bats with the CRIMSON red-ink slingers in the 23th annual historic clash. In order to provide sufficient space for the thousands of spectators who will tramp across Anderson Bridge to witness the downfall of Trainer Ibis charges, the distance between bases has been materially shortened, and much heavy hitting is to be looked for. Realizing the chances they are taking, the Battalion of Death has volunteered to umpire...
...British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no Waterloo, no battle of the Marne, though it may be that Von Arnim's defeat between Ypres and Locre may be discovered some day to have borne a much greater significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit of the Allies is the natural rebound after the surmounting of a crisis. Only that "rebound" hardly describes the state of feeling. Without quite being aware how it happened...
...arrangement identical with that which has existed this past winter. But there is in fact a substantial difference. This year the theoretical and practical work in military science has been combined in a single course; next year the two phases of work will be distinct with as much time devoted to the former as is now given to both. The change here is important. For this year the military schedule has seemed somewhat haphazard. In 1918-19, however, the time to be given to recitations, reading, lectures, and similar exercises will be constant throughout the year...