Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yesterday's communication to your paper, that it would be only fair and just for a leading member of the Harvard faculty to let the students know the reasons that actuated the large majority of the faculty in accepting the resolutions. The faculty, I hear from a private source, almost unanimously rejected the preambles. The preambles then were not our faculty's reasons for their action. These preambles, however, were written by their sole representative at the New York convention. Absurd and illogical as the preambles taken together with the resolutions confusedly are, by the public they are thought...
...many a new Englander is. The number of colleges giving a passable education nearer at hand offer a great inducement to remain at home, and he thinks that the education will be as beneficial, if not quite as fine as Harvard's. Moreover, although Harvard's position is almost universally conceded to be first, yet there is a lamentable ignorance, among men who live at a distance, of the great advantages of a Harvard course. This ignorance, the establishing of fitting schools whose tendency is toward Harvard, is rapidly dispelling. Already in many cities a certain school is known...
...there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate." It would be interesting to learn the individual history of such an alumnus, but it might be the history would be one of a comparative triumph-the history of one who, at the age of eighteen knew almost nothing, but who had then toiled hard and had reached the substance of common knowledge and education...
...great lack in our national life of the present day is that of educated men who are willing to go into politics. This arises of course in large part from the fact that our public service has been almost entirely monopolized by men of exceedingly low principles, who have made it, in the language of the day, "too dirty a business for a gentleman to touch." But the original cause is that our young men while in the midst of their education are too much taken up by other things to give any attention to public affairs, and thus...
...sang three songs (a) Nina, by Pergolesi; (b) The Lark, by Rubinstein; (c) Listz's Du Bist Wie Eine Blume. His art of rendering is of the very best, while the quality of his voice is of the mellow kind in the high notes, his low notes being sometimes almost harsh...