Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There are, however, two slight features in the present system of government which are still in need of improvement. It seems to be an unwritten law that no one outside of the State or almost outside the immediate vicinity of Cambridge can be on the Board of Overseers. The College has a large number of prominent graduates who live outside this State, and there is no reason, now that communication is so easy, why a graduate living in New York or even farther off than New York should not serve on the board. In the President's Report...
...ALMOST all the college papers have contained reviews of "Student Life at Harvard." Of the reviewers, some have praised lavishly, while others have not spared criticism; but all have found some pleasure in reading the book. The extremes of criticism have been found in reviews outside the college press. While we have found nothing in the book to justify the indiscriminate praise of the Boston journals, we have certainly found nothing to justify the contemptuous and ill-natured growls of the New York Times and the Atlantic...
...ourselves interested in any subject, instead of investigating it by ourselves, we look about for some kindred spirits, to gather together and vote that the subject is worth investigation. This is particularly noticeable in college. Independent action is altogether out of fashion, while organizations exist for the furtherance of almost every-object that the mind of man can devise. And of these organizations I mean to speak...
...Hyperbolae in favor of English studies which are indispensable to the education of even moderately informed persons. As required studies have been taken from the other classes, they have been imposed upon the all-suffering Freshmen, until with Mechanics and four branches of Mathematics their burden has become almost too much for the most enduring. Very many have been conditioned every year in studies which they could not master without help, and still more have been driven to the expensive alternative of tutoring. Thus the Freshmen, with the exception of the few mathematical minds among them, have been forced...
...financial enterprises, both public and private. No government or business man can afford to ignore them. And yet young men are to be given a certificate of having received a liberal education from Harvard College without having studied even the principles of a science which will underlie almost every financial transaction in which they may be concerned...