Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second-hand furniture business, which has been conducted almost wholly in the interests of seniors, cannot be continued this year unless more of the present senior class become members. So far, the membership is not enough to warrant incurring the expense necessary to a continuance of this department...
Such examples as we have quoted above are not by any means uncommon,-unfortunately. They have been chosen quite at random, for the sole reason that they illustrate a style of poetry which it is almost a duty to put down, so far as lies in our power...
Education, like almost everything else in Russia, is under government control, and the Moscow University forms no exception to the rule. It is under the supervision of the Ministry of Education who appoint the president and confirm the instructors. The Russian government must be credited, in this case at least, with making a good and judicious use of its power. The report of the Ministry of Education for 1882 showed the number of instructors to be about 330, and of students in all the departments, law, medicine, etc., to be about 2,400. These figures of themselves exhibit the importance...
...almost unnecessary to state that no society is more representative of Harvard, or more worthy of the support of every member of the university than the Pierian. Their concerts are always interesting and of a high degree of merit, and now that so favorable an opportunity to aid the society has been presented, we earnestly hope that everyone who can attend the concert will endeavor...
...Harvard student ridicules the idea that unequal development is produced by training for specialties. In answer to the charge he refers to the prominent college athletes in the different branches, and adds they are almost without exception healthy, and well-developed men. Athletes are beginning to see that the best training for a specialty is the thorough development of the whole body, and not the abnormal development of particular muscles. When this idea has become generally accepted, as it seems probable under Dr. Sargent's teaching that it will, then this objection to specialties may be thrown aside...