Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...take this opportunity, now that the term has drawn almost to a close, to thank the graduates who have been acting all this spring as coaches to the university and freshman crews. They have given their time and services without stint in a difficult and fatiguing task. They have devoted themselves untiringly to the interests of Harvard, sacrificing their private pleasure to the welfare of the university. College men must not look on thoughtlessly, as many are apt to do, and consider it all a matter of course. They must remember the debt of gratitude due to those less conspicuous...
...greater increase in the number of elective courses; for two prescribed courses have been dropped. The abolition of English D removes the last traces of prescribed work for seniors, and will be a great relief in the pressure of thesis work of the senior year. Physics A had proved almost as unsatisfactory under its new form as before, and its death will be a relief to every one. The new courses are chiefly in advanced work, especially research. They indicate a growth in university ideas and methods that follows appropriately on the discussion about shortening the college course. The relations...
...distance on its shrine shines pure and white the real ultimate desire of your nature, adored and treasured, but too far away and cold to draw to it the tides of passion, love and hate, which spend their force upon the trifles of the day. Sometimes it seems almost as if so strange a state of things produced its strange result in the discrediting of eager passion and desire; as if they were too coarse and common for the higher interests of life. The instrument which you confine to lower uses and rob of its best duties is itself dishonored...
...manliness and morality which make independence and originality of life seem very hard; plenty of selfishness, even of selfishness under the rich guise of self-culture enjoined and accepted as a duty, so that public spirit and the open sympathy of democratic life seem often to be sought almost in vain. Plenty of these causes for hesitation and discouragement. Plenty of these signs of how much better the college might be than it is-and yet, in spite of every hesitation, I think your answer still would be that here in college, on the whole, the crown which is incorruptible...
...almost two weeks since the outrages on the John Harvard statue were committed, and nothing material has been done by the students to show their indignation. It was decided at the mass meetings that we did not wish to employ detectives; but there was a strong sentiment that mere words were not sufficient to show the earnest spirit of condemnation which every Harvard man felt. Accordingly it was voted to "make all the reparation in our power by tendering to the college money to be raised by public subscription," It was loudly proclaimed at the time that this would...