Word: actually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they think, the citizens of Cambridge should naturally be more interested. The reason, as has been pointed out in another column, is that the University, besides including a large proportion of the patrons of the post office, makes large demands upon it which are out of proportion to the actual number of persons enrolled. The University includes among its officers, some of the most influential citizens of Cambridge. There is good ground for hoping that an appeal endorsed by them and well supported by the student body would have some effect when all previous efforts have been practically useless...
...senior class on Commencement. Owing to the large numbers in the graduating classes of recent years, the wholesale distribution in Sanders Theatre has caused a scene of confusion which it is hard to reconcile with any idea of dignity attaching to the exercises of the day. The actual process of conferring the degrees is out of harmony with the general tone of the exercises. These, to be appropriate to the occasion when seniors are finally closing their college career, should be dignified and impressive throughout; which the exercises of the past few years have not been. Members of Ninety-three...
...Harvard or of Yale is greater in the other parts of the country. That it may be possible to judge which of these universities is gaining in influence, the following table has been prepared. It shows the gain in ten years at Harvard and at Yale, both in actual number of students and in percentage of the former number...
...last table shows the actual number of students outside New England and the Middle States at Harvard and at Yale, in the last catalogue and ten years ago, and the percentage of those students to the whole number...
...average expense of the three years is $1,190. The average cost of freshman year was $1,140; junior year, $1,160; senior year, $1,270. The committee wish to state that this average is considerably higher than the actual expenditure, as many men did not fill out the blanks. The highest figure given for a single year's expense is $3,000; the lowest $150. Board was secured at the average price of $5.90 per week, the highest being $9.00, and the lowest $3.50. Twenty-eight men have paid part or all of their expenses...