Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...better body. Finney was more solid in the legs and weighed about as much as Bowen. Bowen won the first fall in less than a minute, getting a neck hold and hip lock. This was done so quickly that Finney was taken by surprise, and was on his back almost before he knew it. The men faced each other again, and this time their work showed them to be very evenly matched. Bowen, however, acted more on the offensive than Finney. For ten minutes they worked in vain. Then they rested. Five more minutes they worked away, and then they...
Eighty-six, with almost 250 men on its rolls, votes to have a class dinner. A committee is appointed by which all the necessary arrangements are made. A book is opened,- and then what happens? Out of the 250 juniors less than a fifth respond! Can eighty-six, after the reputation it has made for itself in its college career, afford to allow this class dinner fail through sheer indifference? We think not. We even venture to hope that, not 50 only, but 100 juniors will improve this opportunity to revive the smouldering sparks of class spirit which still glows...
...discussion brought about by the introduction of a classical optional in the admission requirements at Harvard, the opponents of the change have, almost invariably, cited the educational systems of England and Germany in support of their argument. They bring up the fact that in the English preparatory schools and the German gymnasia classical instruction goes much farther than it does in similar institutions in this country. They claim that until a student attains the English or German standard, a classical education should be prescribed for him. In view of this claim the fact acquires interest that there is a considerable...
...taking notes the student has the subject more strongly impressed upon him. To write a thing is almost to remember it; to have classifications and diversions, chapters and paragraphs in visible form on paper, is to give to them more decided shape in the mind, and therefore, greater possibility of being readily comprehended. The careful note-taker is a sort of artist, and in a page covered with paragraphs, and sub-paragraphs, a-b.c's and 1-2-3's he sees a picture, a closer scrutiny of which reveals to him the thought and life that it represents...
...blow to the classics, claiming that students, when no longer required to take disciplinary studies, would immediately cease to pursue them. The result was quite the contrary. Greek and Latin became, and have since remained, among the most popular electives. When the work of the freshman year was made almost entirely elective, the same cry was raised by the classicists. Again, as we see, they were mistaken. The classics evidently possess sufficient intrinsic merit to enable them to stand on their own merits, without being protected in a way in which other studies...