Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...late President Barnard of Columbia has left Columbia almost all his property...
...plans for the Glee club concert at New London are now almost all made, it only remaining to choose the men who are going. The idea is to take almost the same number of each part, and the whole number of men will be between twenty and twenty-five. Unlike the Glee club, the Banjo club will probably send down nearly all if not all of its members. The two clubs will leave on the 27th, and the concert will be the night of the race...
...Kellogg got a base on balls and the bases were full. Kellogg took a lead half way up to second base. Willard took the ball and walked slowly up to second to put Kellogg out, trying at the same time to keep Murphy on third base. When Willard had almost reached second base Murphy made a dash for home. Willard threw wild to Henshaw, and Murphy was home with the other men advanced a base. Kellogg started for third base and the ball was thrown to put him out. Driscoll mean while came home, and Kellogg got third...
Students in Electrical engineering at Harvard have in the past had to contend against the serious difficulty of having almost no opportunity for practical manual work. The lack of facilities for such work shop training has been noticed as the number of men taking electrical studies has increased. We are glad to see that arrangements have been made by which students can have the necessary advantages in manuel work. The facilities are still very limited, yet we recognize a great advance over the opportunities of the present year, when no more than two men could do any machine work...
...second-hand dealer a series of liberal commissions. The necessary expenses of life in college are nowadays so great that any means of reducing them is a matter of great importance for the University. A similar plan has been arranged for a Loan Library of text-books. Almost everybody has a shelf full of old text-books of which he would be glad to make any disposition that might be useful to some one; and we understand that text-books of any sort are most earnestly desired. It is not too much to ask that every student, in leaving...