Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...football restored under limitations imposed by the university committee on student organizations the forum of Columbia University recently voted to accept the scheme which bars Harvard, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale for a period of five years and limits closely those eligible to play Columbia. The motion was carried almost unanimously, four prominent undergraduates voting against and approximately...
...York Evening Post, in a recent editorial pointed out that there has been a marked decline during the last few years, in the amount and quality of the literary output from the colleges. Things have changed since Bryant published his "Thanatopsis" in the North American Review. Almost every other department of college activity has seen a marked rise in efficiency, and there is no reason why this field should be left undeveloped. Recent "college fiction" has shown the acute need of sanity and skill in this field, at least. It is no logical objection to say that the undergraduate...
...inside view" of the elections. The article is full of illuminating facts. This sort of publicity does the society good, and accounts for the growing respect that is being felt for it. When Phi Beta Kappa and its aims and methods are better understood, a key man will get almost as much honor as an "H" man. Articles like "Popular Errors About Phi Beta Kappa" help to bring the man of intellect almost on a par with the man of muscle in the eyes of the University world...
There is doubtless much to be gained from six weeks spent at one of the well-situated camps in the way of outdoor life, discipline, and contact with other men. There is, similarly, very little difference of opinion as to the immense importance and significance of the almost universal military service in the whole life and industrial progress of the German people...
...than he did in his stroy Philosophy 4, by which he is known, and I fear unfavorably, to most undergraduates. His style is intimate and lively and his enjoyment of the book in question, and of books and music in general so keen and so apparent that we can almost forgive him for his college story...