Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although that heterogeneous pile, known as Gore Hall, has been maligned severely by almost every student who has had the opportunity to suffer within its "Graeco-Baptist" walls, there are apparently several men who derive special benefits from this abode of learning. Either the Union has lost its charm as a social rendezvous or ten dollars has assumed a great marginal utility, for almost daily there congregate in Gore Hall little groups to hold conversation on all manner of things, from Kant's conception of the Ego to the most effective way to please Instructor X. Although conversation on these...
...Tuberculosis Association in the New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Smith is a painter of considerable note having executed mural decorations in the Boston Public Library and the Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia. He will speak of his adventures in Southern India including his visit to the almost unknown Buried Temples of Cambodia. The lecture will be illustrated by views taken by Mr. Smith and Mr. Denman W. Ross '75 while in the East. Tickets at $1 each may be obtained at Amee...
...yards on the Schuylkill River Saturday afternoon, defeating its nearest rival, Columbia, by two lengths. The Harvard crew took a commanding lead at the start, and at the end of the first half-mile had the advantage of a length, while Columbia, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale were almost even. The second University crew's lead was never threatened from that time on, but the contest between the other crews was a keen one. Princeton showed surprising strength, first pulling ahead of Pennsylvania and Yale, then challenging Columbia. This approach spurred the Columbia crew to greater effort and it held...
...Senior Class Album will in all probability appear on sale about June 6. The album has been increased in size almost 30 pages from that of last year and over 800 additional pictures will appear for the first time. In number of pages, this is the largest album which has yet appeared...
...evening recently, some twenty men attended a professor's "at home," and following an instrumental duet by two of them, it was suggested that all join in singing "something that everybody knew." But it seemed there was almost no song which everybody knew, and after a pathetic rendering of "Oh You Beautiful Doll" and "The Ragtime Violin," somewhat more successful assaults were made on the football songs. It is little wonder that, after a dismal rehearsal of "Fair Harvard," the professor commented sadly upon the inability of Harvard students to sing...