Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make nothing else of ourselves, let us at least be Americans. The ambition to be an Englishman is not a particularly high one, and it is better almost to be an American of any description than to be a poor imitation of what is too often not a remarkably good model...
...Club is several thousand dollars in debt, with no apparent prospect of diminishing this debt during the present year. There will be a general canvass of the college during the next few weeks. Instead of compelling the management of the H. U. B. C. to visit every man and almost force him to subscribe, let every one, who feels that he can spare any sum, however small, send his subscription at once to the manager of the crew. There are almost eleven hundred men in the undergraduate department. What a poor opinion must we have of ourselves...
...last is a remedy, by simply deceiving some fair one into standing beneath this emblem of osculation, "he has a right, etc.," for do not the directions say so? It is also pleasant to be reminded that "the custom of kissing still exists." We, in our editorial loneliness, had almost forgotten this once well known fact. But why the CRIMSON, in preference to the Advocate or Lampoon, should have been singled out for this mark of favor is beyond our comprehension...
...oboe over what has been heard before, which contributed not a little to the general. As regards the Eroica, the writer certainly never heard a better performance. So perfectly was the comper's idea expressed that toward the close of the second movement the intensity of feeling became almost painful. The scherzo, following this, makes so much of a contrast that it hardly seems in keeping with the rest of the symphony. The fifth symphony of Beethoven presents a much better example of a consistent whole, resting on a psychological. In it the name scherzo, is omitted from the third...
...titles themselves almost frighten us. "Friendship," "Purpose," "Ruhmes Halle," - these have an unpleasant abstractness about them and hardly seem to belong to college journalism. Still, it must be confessed, some of these attempts at philosophy, at the ethical and the didactic, are exceedingly well made, and would reflect credit on papers of a higher order...