Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...belles-lettres contributed much to the renown of the university. It is especially gratifying to think that this tribute to the man whose memory is so dear to all of us should come from those English cousins across the Atlantic whose appreciation of him as a poet was almost, if not fully, as great as that of his own friends and countrymen. The act is only another instance of the growing feeling of friendship which is fast uniting the two great English speaking nations into one great commonwealth of letters. Let us hope that a fitting position may be found...
...Thayer will be vacant in a few days. Any one desiring a room should call and examine it at once. Furniture and carpets almost new for sale cheap...
Several of the recitation rooms were almost as cold as the chapel yesterday...
...ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains," were students of Brasenose College. And so on I might go, but the list of great names is almost endless. Every building is historic, and every walk has traditions of those whose names the world will...
...turn to those college papers which have evidently "come to stay." Eighteen years ago the first number of the "Harvard Advocate appeared, and, from that time on, it has held a preeminent place among college publications. For seven years it held almost unlimited sway, but in 1873 there appeared a rival, the "Majenta," afterwards called the "Crimson." A friendly rivalry immediately sprang up between these two, and continued until the consolidation of the latter with the college daily in 1883. One of the youngest, and yet probably the best known college publication in existence, the "Harvard Lampoon," was first issued...