Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...special courses, where specializing is given its great opportunity for development. In this matter of collegiate education the training of young women is growing more and more like that of young men and it is the hope of the Annex authorities that the two lines of work now running almost parallel may soon merge into...
...turn first to the treasurer's report, we find that of a total of $47,681.70 received, the large sum of $37,240.00 is the return from tuition fees alone. In the expenses, this is almost counterbalanced by salaries to the various officials amounting to $31,929.30. The other items of particular interest are $1,498.12 devoted to the library and $8,738.64 to building...
...secretary's report is naturally of greater general interest. It shows the usual increase in almost every department, the attendance during the year amounting to 263 as against 241 the year previous. The instruction for these young women was furnished by seventy-five professors and instructors of Harvard College, the older members of the Harvard faculty being well represented among them...
...expression of the mistaken American idea. American children are the victims of the stern, practical life about. Childhood, which should be the time of light-hearted illusions, ends too early, if it even exists. But on the other hand, one of the best features of American life is the almost universal education of the youth...
...call attention to the exhibition of lantern slides to be held by the Camera Club in Boylston Hall tomorrow night. The slides which will be exhibited are almost entirely from views of Harvard taken for the World's Fair, with a few additional negatives made this fall. The exhibition will be a sort of public rehearsal, for the aim of the club in giving it is primarily to satisfy the members whether or not the slides are good enough to pass muster at the International Lantern Slide Exchange, to membership in which the club hopes to be admitted...