Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Iowa, it is stated, has so many colleges - almost thirty - that they have all been kept more or less weak, not one of them advancing to the rank of a thorough university. This ridiculous multiplication of colleges is a crying evil in other States as well as in Iowa. If three-quarters of the colleges in America were utterly abolished, and their value and endowments devoted to the enlargement of the remaining colleges and the improvement of the public schools, it would be of incalculable benefit to the people...
...fact that it is large does not make it so full of red tape that it is impossible to feel at home in it. As far as is possible the individual wishes of each student are consulted by the librarian and his assistants, so that every student has almost all the advantages of a private library without its burdens. There is no department of the university more worthy of the assistance of both students and outsiders...
...While we sincerely wish the University of Michigan the greatest possible success in their praiseworthy efforts, we are very skeptical as to whether they can hope for great financial gain to be derived from the production of a Latin play in a very small provincial town whose population consists almost entirely of students and tradesmen...
...been decided at Oxford University that the dues payable by members during their first four years of life there be increased. The cause of this is certain unremunerative expenditures that have been made, the benefit of which accrues almost wholly to undergraduates. Among these are the Taylorian Galleries; the parks (pound38,800); the museum (pound15,000, all of which, except the cost of the site, has been paid out of income); an observatory (pound7,500); a new chemical laboratory (pound7,500); the restoration of the Bodleian edifice (pound20,000); the new schools site (pound38,000), and the new schools building...
...steamship Pera of the Ross line was totally wrecked near Cape Race May 31st. She ran into an iceberg in a fog and sank almost instantly. The passengers and crew escaped in boats, but it is feared some of the boats have been lost...