Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...collegiate men in the lists of authorship is greater to-day than it was in that indefinite period known as 'before the war.' Making a list hastily of well-known authors, setting their names down as they occur to us, it appears that Irving, Poe, Cooper and Whittier are almost the only names of men of the first rank who did not have a college education. Bryant began a college course, but was compelled to discontinue it. Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, Willis, Prescott, Bancroft. Motley, the two Danas, were all college...
...literature in some form among alumni is readily diverting into business channels. A census of the publishing house to whose catalogue we have referred having been taken, it was found that of the twenty-eight men in the counting rooms, above the rank of errand boy, nine, or almost one-third, are college graduates. The college, it seems, is reinforcing literature in other ways than those which are strictly the ways of authorship...
Seldom is Appleton Chapel as crowded as it was last evening. By ten minutes past seven, almost every seat in the house was taken, and at 7.15 the doors were closed, and throngs of people were obliged to turn away. The attendance of college students was very large, and the seats reserved for them were far from adequate. Rev. Phillips Brooks conducted the services preliminary to the sermon. Canon Farrar's text was, "By Faith," taken from the fourth chapter of Hebrews, and the substance of his remarks was as follows...
...report that President Porter purposes resigning his connection with Yale College is received with almost universal surprise. The announcement, accompanied as it is by no explanation as to the proposed action, has caused great discussion, and the hope is expressed upon every side that Dr. Porter will be induced to reconsider his resignation. It will be a serious blow to the college to lose the services of its present head, and few gentlemen can be found who will quite fill his place. The scholarly president whose work for his college has made it a power throughout the country, can feel...
...much in fact, for the chief idea of the man with the ball seems to be to throw the ball away when he is caught, in the vain hope of one of his own side getting it; but of good backing up and of real careful passing there is almost none. There is a fairly heavy rush line, the three centre men Trafford, Morse, and Markoe being especially heavy, but they do not make the most of their weight, and are slow in their movements, though Trafford is playing well and bids fair to make a really good rusher. Woodbury...