Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...West is always the place for surprises, the place where new and strange experiments are tried. For in the long established and thickly settled parts of the country the spirit of conservatism is deeply set, the desire to make bold strides, to advance new ideas, almost nil; but in the west where the people are extremely energetic and unsurpassedly ready for change at least, and for improvement, where improvement is possible, all conservatism is quite unknown. And so we in the east study with interest what the west undertakes, and accomplishes, whether it be in politics, art, science, literature...
...local. The little journal swells out enormously, and disagrees most decidedly with a recent appointment at Washington, or thinks that the city had better "begin work on the grading" of such and such a street as soon as possible. The current number contains its Thanksgiving editorial, and the reader almost sees the enthusiastic editor devouring the famous morsels of turkey, with eyes dilated, face jovial, and lips smeared with the oeleaginous parts of the "drum-stick." The picture is almost tantalizing. We leave the editorials and turn to the contributed articles...
This system will be deemed almost revolutionary by many, but it has already been adopted by other colleges, and with success, Modern Harvard is devoted to reform. Let her spirit be shown in this one department that still flavors of antiquity...
...very interesting Harvard note: "Several instructors omitted their lectures to-day." This note suggests to us perhaps one of the pleasantest features of a college course. Where the Record euphoniously says "omitted," the ordinary college student would murderously say "cut." Without "cuts" the college man would find his life almost, perhaps quite unbearable; a statement, which is well proved by the fact that where cuts are not given occasionally, the student is very likely to take them semi-occasionally. Of course the conclusion follows at once that it is policy for instructors to do some "omitting" once in a while...
...part of their time to "match peddling," and to such occupations as telegraph messengers, "itinerant musicians," etc. They can really accomplish very little, and their beggary brings into disrepute the professions they are studying. This state of things on its sober side is indeed a pitiable one. Thousands of almost absolute paupers, men of the most ordinary attainments and without a suitable early education at home, come up every year from the provinces to Berlin and Vienna...