Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great extent by the present war, according to statements received from those respective countries. In most cases the universities have been able to run with greatly reduced registration; some have had to stop altogether and some have had enough extra men, too young to enlist, to extent their registration almost to the same extent as it was before...
...should like to ask, forgetting for a moment the false rhetoric and almost inconceivable bad taste of the latter, which of the two displayed more activity, ardor and self-sacrifice and supported with greater ability the greater cause--the subject of the above account or the writer of the editorial? While the latter, safe at home, was mouthing rhetorical rubbish about "the one loyalty" and the "greater cause," the men whom he attacked were saving lives at the constant risk of their own, to be reminded that "they were guilty of a misconception of duty"; that they are verging...
...present management of the Advocate has made one change from methods of previous years highly to be commended. In place of the former stand-and-deliver method of extracting a criticism from the reviewer when the paper to be criticized was presented to you almost without warning, and with it a virtual ultimatum that your review must be ready in three hours, now comes, with all possible courtesy and consideration, no less a person than the president of the Advocate himself, two or three weeks before he wants his review, to ask when it will be agreeable...
...Yale-Pennsylvania crew races for which the two Yale crews have practically completed their training, is scheduled for Saturday of next week. As this date is in the middle of the vacation period, the races will almost surely be rowed if the crews so desire. If, however, the oarsmen wish to go to their homes before the opening of the military training, which begins immediately on their return from college, the races will be called off. It is very unlikely that the Easter trip of the Yale nine, which begins next Wednesday, will be taken...
...United States is not legally at war, it many be, either by actual hostilities between the armed forces of Germany and the United States or declaration by Germany, even before Congress has time to convene and act. Our relation with the Entente Allies of Europe will then be almost as important as the part we are to play in the actual conflict. The discussion of the problem of our foreign relations after the war by trained debaters who have made careful study and preparation should do much to define the principles involved. The American undergraduate, while he is not lacking...