Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...otherwise ready flow of wit and humor was, to a certain extent, held in check by the consciousness of the recent death of Mr. Cutter, the ex-secretary of the Association. This lamented occurrence led to the postponement of the dinner from Jan. 1st, and accounts for the almost total absence of undergraduates, as college opened on the second instant. It is due to the gentlemen in charge to say that the enviable social reputation of Buffalo was fully sustained...
...death of Mr. Hudson, the great Shaksperian scholar, brings before us forcibly the story of his life. From it we may learn what determination can do. A common workman at twenty two, fitting himself for college in nine months, graduating after a long struggle at self-support, becoming almost at once a famous critic and an authority in his favorite study. What a lesson his life teaches. The death of such a man cannot pass without remark and honor. We owe to his memory at least a word of appreciation, for he has left to us in his life...
...have been glad to see the readiness with which one of our exchanges corrected a false statement which appeared recently in its columns, about Harvard; and we wish that all college journals could practice a like courtesy. Sensationalism, the great enricher of reporters nowadays, starts on their evil missions almost no end of exaggerated and wholly false statements, and these statements somehow find their way into almost every paper in the country. It is at least courteous that those who have so eagerly published elaborate reports, should be as eager to publish denials of them, especially if undenied, they...
...exchange columns in school and college journals to-day are readable. Editors doubtless find them interesting, at times exciting, but general readers almost never find them so. Here, then, is a real fault, - a fault that has but one cure. Exchange editors should talk not in petty small-talk, as so many of them do, but in a way that will involve some generality, some interest to their readers as well as to themselves. The small-talk should more properly be conducted by private correspondence. But whatever is done, extravagance should be avoided...
Nothing, perhaps, is more natural than for a student newly thrown into relations with, apparently, his superiors, to adopt their customs and their language. The transition from the refined conversation of home life or the puerilities of school life is strangely sudden; they are dropped or intensified almost immediately - and because this transition is so sudden we are led to ask seriously whether the use of Harvard slang is merely an affectation or an unconscious habit. Members of the freshman class may always be relied upon to betray their collegiate standing by an inordinate use of purely Harvard expletives. This...