Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Pierce Hall (formerly the Engineering building) is now almost entirely occupied for the school purposes, while Perkins, Walter Hastings, and Hemenway Gymnasium are used for quarters...
...dividend at the rate of nine per cent, on all cash sales and seven per cent, on all credit sales was paid to members and the net earnings of the Society would permit the payment of dividends at the same rate this autumn. In view, however, of the almost certain reduction in the number of students at the University during the coming college year and the resulting falling off in the business which the Society must prepare for in consequence, it was unanimously agreed both by the Directors and the Stockholders that a reduction in the rate of dividend should...
...passed through the struggle will take up with new hope the work of construction for which they have been trained. In that later time they will gain the fullest rewards of their training; not in this barbaric time, when the most martial nation has exalted its heroes to be almost gods...
...They are coming from just such groups of men as that which has been training here for many months. The finishing touches which a regular training will put on them is bound to produce the kind of officer our country is looking for. Harvard has the French Officers, an almost perfect organization and a large body of serious, willing workers--three elements essential to the task which those who fostered the University regiment sought to do. It will take something decidedly more powerful than mere rumor to destroy all the good which has been brought about by the University corps...
...nations as in men leads to the accomplishment of stirring deeds, and the overleaping of the slow ways of commonsense. But in this war, which is one without romance and without chivalry, we have no resources of any kind to expend in a show of gallantry. Those boys, almost young men, who are not called on nor needed by our armies, will find the best way of helping their country in continuing the course of education they have begun, fitting themselves to be strong and honorable...