Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...members of the University, the additions to the audiences have been apparently received with pleasure by the readers. Before beginning his first reading, Professor Child stated the object of the course in a few words. He said that arrangements had been made to have the great masterpieces read of almost all the languages commonly studied. The course might possibly be extended, if the interest taken in it warranted its extension, and the works of Dante read, together with those perhaps of Goethe and Schiller, and other great authors not previously announced. The course would be curtailed only in case...
...this slight improvement in time is not to be looked upon as insignificant, for in comparing these results there are considerations other than the mere marking of watches to be taken into account. Time in a race is purely relative, and depends almost as much upon the defeated as upon the victors. In the fall of '74 the Matthews and Holyoke crews had a sharp struggle over the whole course, and up to the last moment it was uncertain which crew would win; it is therefore natural to conclude that the time of the winning crew was as good...
...most of our public associations are constituted, an executive committee of half a dozen members have full power to decide almost every question that can arise. Even when they do appeal to the College for instruction, men are afraid to open a discussion, and motions are generally passed with only a few words said in their support, - passed sometimes, it seems, solely because the ayes are called first. The absolute power of this oligarchy is of course our own fault, but its real cause is our diffidence about public speaking, which represses all public manifestations of interest in our affairs...
...first place, almost every society requires some literary work of its members, either before or after initiation, so that in this way a large number of men gain that first practice in writing which is necessary to wear away the newness of their pens and make them run freely. Then the themes and forensics are sufficiently numerous, in the last three years, to allow the student on the average only four weeks to compose each one, which is certainly by no means too long for those who have acquired no great facility in arranging their ideas. These are all carefully...
...while the Reading-Room has recovered its footing, the Boat-Clubs are fast sinking into the slough of debt. It would seem that it is almost entirely through Mr. Blakey's generosity that the clubs will have boats for their crews to-morrow. When the present system was founded, in order to insure him what the originators of the plan considered a fair profit, he was guaranteed two hundred members, each paying $15 a year, in return for which he has provided boats enough to allow one third of the members to row at the same time. As there...