Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...store, showing every Harvard building and some others in the vicinity of Harvard square. By a careful examination of these pictures it will become apparent that to nearly every person they seem to be first-class photographs. In fact they are Albertypes, made by the Forbes Co., and are almost indiscernable from photographs. By comparing the prices of these prints with the prices of photographs, it will be seen that these pictures - equally as good - do not cost one-half as much as photographs. Moreover, these forty prints are to be bound in one special edition of "Harvard...
From Brown's treatment of Amherst, it would almost suggest itself to an unprejudiced mind that Brown, not Amherst, be excluded from the college league. - [News...
...lessened. The steward does not seem to have learned yet how much it takes to supply the hall. The other evening at dinner asparagus was on the bill of fare. Any man who came at half-past six was told that the asparagus was all out. This thing occurs almost every night. Something or other always gives out in about a half-hour. There is no need to enumerate other short-comings; every one knows what they are; but this one thing is very clear - there must be some radical change in the hall next year...
...were everything. Now that is changed. The university is to provide professors at the cost of the colleges, and all the students will be forced to attend their lectures. But the greatest change of all is the abolition of the enforced celibacy of the fellows. Other changes are the almost entire extinction of clerical fellowships, the separation of endowments from special schools and from the more private and personal ends designed by the original donor, the taxation of the colleges for the founding of sub-professorships or readerships, the suppression of religious and church influences, and the scantiest allowances...
...year, in order that men may be enabled to utilize the summer months in at least a part preparation of their compositions. Life at Cambridge is so full of action, a person's time is usually so completely occupied in the study of the regular courses, that it is almost impossible to devote the just attention to the writing of themes and forensics. Under the new disposition of matters, however, men will be able and glad to anticipate a large amount, if not all, of the work that is necessary to make the writing on assigned subjects of the greatest...