Word: almost
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...University is said to be "to train boys up in the way the should go," and by that we suppose is meant to give them as much home life as possible, as little college life as possible. This interpretation of their aim makes us remark that they might almost have said "children," instead of "boys." At least the tender care that they would give to young men seems to be the sort of care that those young men have had, or should have had before they ever came to college. Very few of those, who have ever experienced dormitory life...
...getting settled. That done, and supper over, a regiment of dress-suited fellows issued from the hotel and marched to martial music in the direction of the City Hall. The large assembly room of that building was used for the concert; it seats two thousand people and was filled almost to overflowing. A mighty sounding of "Ah!" ensued upon the arrival of the players, and soon all was in readiness for an appearance. It would be unwise to attempt a criticism of the rendering of the programme, for the scientific analysis by the CRIMSON'S musical editor next Thursday would...
...subject; as by President White, of Cornell, before the National Educational Association in 1874. But the plan, I fear, will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive. We need the ambition that would go beyond the studies required for practical purposes, that would go beyond the bread-and-butter studies. And to produce and foster such...
...adopting the ideas and customs of other nations"; for to say this is to slight those principles which every true American loves to think of as the cause of his country's greatness. We are the exponent of an original and unique form of government whose feelings are almost lost in its advantages. Our progress is due largely to the fact that, being freed at first from an inferior form of rule, together with the obnoxious customs it carried with it, we have been kept free thus far from that form of rule and those customs...
...unlimited 'heckling,' not to have to canvass the illiterate voter or the impracticable crotcheteer, not to have to open charitable bazaars, or preside at philanthropic meetings; in short to possess a seat in the Lower House without having to undergo any of the penalties attaching to it, is almost beyond the hope of ordinary mortals. Yet, such is their case and, despite Radical grumbling, we believe it will long remain so. An absurdly futile attempt was made, somewhile ago, to ascertain whether a moderate Liberal candidate could be run at the General Election with any chance of success...