Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...those who wish can matriculate at almost any of the universities by a certificate of admission to this College, and with three months' previous study of the language will be able to proceed advantageously. The drill is not then lost. The expenses are comparatively light. Matriculation, including use of library, is at Munich, for example, $3.50, and lectures for a semester one hour a week are seventy-five cents each; i. e. a course of twelve lectures a week for half a year...
...cost of living there is no higher than here, while the tuition here will almost pay the passage across and back...
...take any room in the Yard he wishes. But, notwithstanding such arguments, a feeling is beginning to prevail, more widely now than for some years past, that it is desirable to room alone. Possibly the feeling has always existed, but is become noticeable now, as until lately it was almost impracticable to secure a single room. Within a year or two the rule has been made that the rooms in Grays shall be occupied by one student only. In other buildings, also, rooms appear to be given to a student who applies without a chum as freely...
...done away with. Unless a man retires to his bedroom, and such an action is an invitation to his friends to leave, he is never sure of a moment in which to study uninterruptedly. At Vassar they are so unmannerly as to do this; it is, in fact, rendered almost unavoidable by the huddling of five young lady chums into one study-room. To the studious, this system of chumming does more injury than the most earnest efforts of the instructors in the lecture-room can repair. Never free from interruption either by your chum or some caller, asked continually...
...wooden building of any description whatever, placed, as it would probably be, near some one of the substantial brick or stone structures in the College grounds, could not but present a mean and cheap appearance. It is very unfortunate that the University has not the means to erect, what almost every other college in the country now has, a convenient Gymnasium in a substantial, handsome building...