Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe there is not less of real democracy at Harvard than at Stanford. It would be almost impossible for Harvard to demonstrate its democracy as Stanford does. Stanford is a small community in itself. It is located about a mile and a half from Palo Alto, the nearest town, and all fraternities and clubs are on the "Campus" and within ten minutes walk of most of the university buildings. At Harvard the students are scattered over a large city. The village lends itself to the democracy and familiarity that are quite impossible in the metropolis. On the other hand...
...pretty conception prettily worked out. The verse runs well and the reminiscences of older English poetic diction (in a good sense) are not unpleasing. The other verse contributions in the number are of less interest. Mr. Snow's "Episode of Reincarnation" shows some skill in using devices which are almost foredoomed to failure in English metre. With reference to Mr. Auslander's "Maybe in Years to Come," one feels like asking whether the lines about "inarticulate years" and "lovely silences that yearn to music" seem to the author to be an extraordinarily simple greeting...
Harvard leads the race and, save for Yale, she has not even a respectable competitor. Among the 2,000 distinguished persons of the younger generation, Harvard has graduated almost as many as Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Princeton combined; almost as many as Wisconsin, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Chicago and California combined. Harvard and Yale together have graduated 24 more of these distinguished persons than Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Princeton combined. The supremacy of these institutions, and of Harvard in particular, is little short of astounding...
...university to restrict the freedom of speech or opinion on the part either of the members of the faculty or of speakers from the outside is based upon a misconception of the attitude of the students toward those who address them from the lecture platform. That attitude is almost invariably one of respect, mingled with doubt. No audience is quicker to perceive the untruth, the fallacy, or, on the other hand, the worth of an argument. Weight of academic authority counts for little to the university student who is accustomed to listen daily to men famous over the civilized world...
...scrimmage started with the first team lined up against the B. A. A. Almost immediately after play started Downing scored for the B. A. A. on a rebound, and two minutes later Baker evened it up with a snap shot from a scrimmage. For the first time this week the forwards were making sure of their passes, and the result was a total of seven goals. Townsend played a conspicuous part in the scoring of three, receiving a pass from Baker after about seven minutes of play he took it past the defence and returned it to Baker, who scored...