Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of the undoubted honesty of many of the foreign journals, we would follow some plan of anglicizing them. Such a change may lead their readers as far toward the ideals of our republic as almost anything else...
...should be noted that such a memorial would fill what amounts to a crying need in the College today. Harvard stands almost alone among the large universities in the lack of a University Theatre of some sort, and yet she is recognized as the leading American college in actual accomplishment in the theatrical field. She has contributed more men that make the theatre worth while than any other college...
...Catalogue of the Summer School which is published today, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces a large number of summer courses open to students of the College and the Engineering School. The curriculum will be unusually complete this year, and will include almost every course which is offered during the winter term...
President Eliot has devoted almost all of his life to the interests of the University. He was its President for forty years, from 1869-1909. On May 19, 1909, he retired from public life, and has held the honorary office of President Emeritus since that time...
...reforms which he introduced were not only revolutionary in their character as regards the College, but they were also revolutionary in the general field of education at that time. The development of the elective system gradually displaced an almost completely prescribed curriculum. And the three year course for the A. B. degree was introduced at his direction to shorten the college period for those who found the preparation for professional schools too long. That these radical changes were timely is conclusively shown by statistics, for in 1869, the year in which he became President, a total of two hundred...