Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale men are being treated to lectures almost every day. Several courses are in progress, under the direction of the college professors...
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was the custom in almost all American colleges to punish students by fines; and indeed it was not until this century that fines were abolished at Harvard. Some colleges were said to derive quite a revenue from this source, and were not, therefore, prone to abolish a system so profitable to themselves. The worse the students behaved, the better it was for the college. At Harvard there was a schedule of fifty-five offences punishable by penalties varying from two pence, for absence from prayers, to two pounds ten shillings, for absence from...
...buildings belonging to it are four in number, the original Rogers Building, the New Building, the "Shops," and the Gymnasium and Drill Hall. The first two contain the lecture and drawing rooms, the laboratories, the collections and some of the work rooms. The "Shops" is a building devoted almost entirely to manual work, while the fourth and last building is devoted to the uses which its name implies...
...Harvard Cooperative Society, just when several of the largest colleges in the country are following what seemed the example of our success. "Harvard indifference" is no mere bugbear or vague generality, for Harvard indifference has killed our Co-operative Society. With the '82 , '83 and '84 men, it was almost a matter of principle to support the society and to buy through it what they could. They knew what Cambridge prices were before the existence of the society, and they realized that if it were to go under the drop of twenty per cent. caused by the society in Cambridge...
...posters of the winter meetings of the H. A. A. announced the following programmes which are almost identical with those of last vear. The running broad jump has been added...