Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...flame. If I could warm the water soon enough I should be saved - if not - the laudanum - how cold it was - it was nearly bedtime - I was so sleepy. A drowsy confusion of thought filled my brain. My head nodded. The narcotic was winning the race. I was almost unconscious, when, as fortune would have it, one of my long mustachios - of which I was exceedingly proud - touched the flame of the candle. In an instant the hair blazed up, and the sudden heat aroused me from my stupor. I started wildly. Smarting with the pain of the burn...
...have undertaken to make up the class-book neglected by their class when in College. But there are reasons, in re ipsa, amply sufficient to lead a thoughtful man to spend the half-hour necessary to answer the questions asked. Very few of us will be great men, but almost all will have descendants, either of our own or of our near relatives, to whom an account of our early lives will be of great interest, and the genealogies may supply many a break made by the loss of the "family tree" or "family Bible," in its passage from hand...
...community had led to disgraceful indulgence among those who refused to yield to such asceticism, it was well for the Faculty to prohibit all liquor at Commons; but times have changed, and a more rational temperance, not altogether due to the (so-called) "Temperance Party," has been adopted by almost all. It seems, then, like a repetition of the old mistake to hold up teetotalism as the highest virtue, and, in regard to our own College, Why, we ask again, should the almost English system of our Commons be defaced by so superannuated an Americanism as the enforcement...
...little of sociability we see! how few rooms where men are engaged in friendly conversation or debate! Almost every one seems to be pursuing his own business or pleasure in solitude. Of course this is not true of all fellows: some of us cultivate the social element of college life to the detriment of the studious, as we know to our cost; yet, on the other hand, a good many seldom see their classmates except in recitation, at the table, or at society meetings. Harvard men are almost proverbially taciturn. "Deep streams run still," some one may answer. True...
SELDOM does the saying "One must go abroad to learn the news" appear more pertinent than when applied to the events of college life. Not only may we find in almost any newspaper changes in college laws and customs, which are here regarded as mere possibilities, there stated as facts; but the account of events is so padded by the ingenious reporter that we hardly recognize them. Most marvellous, too, are the stories told us by everybody, but especially by young ladies, of the way college students spend their time. If we might believe them, our life is only...