Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hayes met his voluntary class in Elocution yesterday afternoon for the first time. The large number of men present, almost thirty, shows that interest in this branch of instruction has by no means diminished, in spite of Mr. Hayes' inability to form a class earlier. At the next meeting, Lowell's "Vision of Sir Launfal" will be read, and after that is finished, selections from Fletcher's "Advanced Readings and Recitations." The class will meet twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays at 2 o'clock...
...what is the best remedy for these evils seems to be well expressed in the regulations just passed. Their argument for the first vote appears to be that it is necessary for a student to form regular habits during his course at college, and that it is almost impossible for these regular habits to be formed unless "every undergraduate be required to report in person early every morning with a moderate and fixed allowance for occasional absences...
...with the action of which they were entirely unacquainted. The troops around Paris were exposed to great hardships, from both hunger and cold, and in moving from one place to another were forced, on account of the number of men and the narrowness of the roads, to stand waiting almost for hours before being able to move forward. This proved even more fatiguing than constant marching...
...same glorious power that he is to us today. Seven hundred years before Christ, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey marked the beginning of the literature of all Europe, and through all the ages since they have been the same living poems that they are to us now. It is almost impossible for us to conceive the influence which the poems of Homer has upon the minds and hearts of the Greeks. At first it was their privilege to learn these poems only from recitals. Not on this account, however, was there any lack of opportunity to gain a knowledge...
...nine which will represent Ninety two on the field this spring. The outlook is promising, and Captain Cady will probably evolve a fairly representative nine out of the thirty or more men trying for positions on the team. The candidates come from all sections of the country. Almost all have occupied positions on the nines of the schools from which they came. The names of the men are as follows: For the position of pitcher there are five candidates Hill, who has pitched for a nine in Albany, N. Y.; Viles, Churchill, Curtiss and Grant...