Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...warm, almost sultry weather of the last few days again arouses thoughts about the lack of general interest in rowing. There are now in the boat-house a fair number of pair-oared working boats, which are not used from one season to another. Although the Charles is not the most pleasing of waters on which a young man may exercise his muscle with the oars, yet the river is not so bad after all, and surely there ought to be awakened among our undergraduates a greater desire for universal excellence in boating. There are a few private shells...
...some unaccountable way, he has grown fifteen or twenty years older during the few months elapsed since his high school commencement day. Under the despotic sway of the high school pedagogue he was a boy; he has suddenly become a man; distinguished professors defer to him, treat him almost as their equal, he finds that his education depends mainly on the soundness of his own judgment. Harvard theory assumes that a youth of eighteen or nineteen is not the thoughtless, irrational creature he is generally supposed...
...whole experiment is a novel, almost a startling one. What is to be the true result? The answer may perhaps be found in the words of a rude but hard-headed friend who said to me. "Under the present system, I shall expect a graduate of Harvard to be either a d - fool or a genius...
Although not yet definitely settled, it is almost certain that the annual regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen will be rowed on the Hudson River, near Albany...
...excursions which are so numerous in the fall and spring of each year, form a very valuable part of the work that is done by students of Natural History. These excursions concern a very large number of men in college, and, as spring is almost if not quite upon us, it can hardly be out of place to call attention to them. The value of the practical study of nature, of what is commonly called the "field work," and the advantage of the intimate association with an instructor, are by no means small. And when the real pleasure and profit...