Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university was in the form of a long letter to the Boston Transcript. This letter took the authorities severely to task for the manner in which the Divinity School is run and its professorships filled. Fortunately for our good name the writer of this lengthy diatribe seems to be almost alone in his opinions, and his remarks have called forth an army of able defenders for the school...
...Yale polo club is fast developing an excellent team. Saturday they almost defeated the Lincolns, one of the best teams in Connecticut...
...Harvard, of late years, the freshman has been gradually rising in the social scale, until now, thanks to the system of electives, and the consequent obliteration of the sharply defined class lines, he is almost "as good as his betters." In speaking of the changes which have taken place in college life, an exchange says...
...conclusion is irresistible that within the last decade or two the American College freshman has undergone an almost startling development, and has become a much more appreciable quantity in college life than ever before. To us old fellows the change is decidedly bewildering. In our day the freshman was currently believed to possess no rights which an upper classman was bound to respect. He was despised and rejected. He was the hewer of wood and drawer of water for all his sophomore neighbors. He was regarded as the legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity...
...large, and is headed by Latin, Greek and mathematics. Latin and Greek are still among the requirements for entrance, but after admission they are to be pursued only in case the student chooses to do so. A generation ago, the ordinary college course consisted of Latin, Greek and mathematics almost exclusively, with the addition of mental and moral philosophy and logic, and possibly a course of Christian evidences. History was little taught, except indirectly, the modern languages and the physical sciences were almost ignored, while subjects like political economy, comparative politics and sociology were almost unheard of by the undergraduate...