Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Columbia has graduated almost...
...last number of part one, the beautiful selection, played so well at the celebration concert of the 250th anniversary, was given with almost greater success last evening...
...seconds gives the word to cross swords; and as the two figures in the middle stand with right arms high in the air and swords crossed, the other second cries Los! and off they go. The strokes, coming entirely from the wrist, rain down so rapidly that it is almost impossible for an inexperienced eye to follow them, but as each one is guarded one hears the sharp thwack of the sword as it descends harmless on some part of the padding of the shoulder or throat. Suddenly a small tuft of hair seems to spring from...
...combination in this rowing matter was at first doubted among the students who heard of the affair yesterday. And it seems that they doubted with great propriety. The proposition of admitting Columbia into the four-mile race with Yale on the Thames is preposterous. Every rowing man and almost every student in the country knows that the course at New London is utterly unfit for a race between three crews, and we must say that Columbia shows great presumption in proposing any such arrangement. If she wishes to row Yale - a very laudable desire by the way - there...
...youths seem to possess as little regard for the place as for the comfort of the students. Indeed, the cries of "Record, is a cent," and "Buy the only reliable paper," which are levelled by the rival venders at the students passing into Memorial, and the crowding and jostling, almost make us fancy that we are in a railroad station. Sometimes the student actually has to shove his way through the crowd, while the boys are thrusting papers in his very face, as if he were escaping from a swarm of hackmen. Will not some one inform these irrepressible youngsters...