Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...almost phenomenal, when such a good roller skating rink as the Harvard is close at hand, that some student has not started a rink polo club...
Harvard is not alone is the matter of hockey. In Canada, hockey clubs are common, and the McGill College club is a very fine one, having won almost every game played in 1883 and getting the champion's cup. In Canada, the game is usually played in covered rinks, as the ice on the rivers and ponds is covered with snow all winter...
...Index. The Harvard Index is published for use and convenience only. At Harvard, such a publication as the Aegis would not succeed, would not, we think, be at all popular. Certain it is that the "grinds," as they call them, would not be endured here. We almost wonder that they meet with favor anywhere. An explanation is found, perhaps, in the fact that in other colleges which are smaller, the students are better acquainted and generally more intimate. Only on the score of great familiarity and intimacy can we explain the liberty so often taken in getting off these "grinds...
...Tragedy of Errors, or 'Dartmouth picked out of the League,' a drama of facts." The first is on the "College Ground, Cambridge," with "groups of dudes twirling canes and adjusting eyeglasses." The whole drama is very good reading indeed-to Dartmouth Men. The personal "grinds" in the "Aegis" are almost without number. "Nominibus onusis" here are some of them, "-, 'asinus asinorum'; -, 'I had rather tell ten lies than say a word of truth' -, 'Great Bacchus is my deity." These grinds are doubtless the soul of Dartmouth wit. We may well pity the subjects of them...
...will lecture here this evening, has never attended school or college, but was educated at home, under the careful supervision of his mother, a lady of rare culture and force of character. Under these circumstances his appointment to the chair of English literature at Cambridge was an honor almost unprecedented, and proves conclusively his great ability...