Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should be so called is not made very plain to the audience, is a sensational play with a well constructed plot, and although some of the characters and situations are worn a little threadbare by constant use, nevertheless are so skillfully managed as to make it seem almost like a new play. The play is well cast and the company appear to better advantage than in the many plays which they have presented...
...were insincere in purpose, and that making chapel voluntary would be equivalent to destroying the chapel service altogether. Even men like Dr. Brooks and Dr. McKenzie hesitated a long while before taking the step which was sure to come some day. The grand service on Sunday night - when almost as large an audience as that which assembled to hear Canon Farrar, was gathered in the chapel, showed that the students were eager to receive the new plan for religious worship. The noble words of Phillips Brooks - "We now give you religion, with the only foreign element which it formerly...
...half a century old, and has had among its members such a noted man as Professor Agassiz, Professor Shaler and Professor Gray. It occupies handsome rooms in the eastern end of Massachusetts Hall, where a growing collection of minerals, reptilia and birds; and a valuable library which contains an almost priceless edition of Auduboni's birds. The society meets fortnightly for the discussion of congenial topics and is in a prosperous condition. It has given in the past several lectures - those by Profs. Trelease and Muybridge being eminently successful. If the society continues in its present flourishing condition...
...Austin was of singularly affectionate and winning disposition. His natural vivacity and unvarying good-nature made him a universal favorite, and he numbered almost as many friends among the upper classes as in his own. He was active and vigorous till his fatal illness overtook him, and was an athlete of unusual promise...
...class of eighty-six gathers together almost for the last time as a class. Nothing that we can say will fully express the thoughts which must fill the mind of every senior as his class day dawns upon him. All the memories of four years crowd upon him and force home the conviction, hard at first to gain, that college days are days of the past. The present senior class have seen many changes at Harvard since their entrance as freshmen, and it is said that the present year will witness a greater change than any yet inaugurated, - the abolition...