Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...significant thing is that the Princeton faculty hopes that the movement of the little company of sophomore reformers will succeed. The club elections have come to be too important a feature of school life, almost making or marring a college course. The best men do not always disclose themselves during the two years in which the upper classmen are "looking over the material" and making their selections for the coveted memberships. Some men are good mixers and others are shy and make their way slowly. Some are predominantly athletic, some altogether athletic, some are grinds and others are general good...
...part of the University until 1890 shows a slight decrease in the number of students enrolled. There is a total of 603 men in the school this year as compared with 652 last year. This makes a striking contrast with the other departments and with the University itself. They almost all seem to have grown. This loss is probably due to the increase in efficiency of so many graduate schools in the smaller universities throughout the country. One hundred and sixty-one American colleges and universities are represented this year in addition to several foreign institutions, while last year...
...frequent and complete examinations of the milk and other dairy products that are used in the University dining halls (Memorial, Foxcroft and the Freshman Halls), at the Stillman Infirmary and at the Varsity Club. These examinations have insured a safe supply of pure products. The water used is examined almost daily...
Professor Wendell has taught at the University almost continuously since 1880, being Instructor in English from 1880 to 1888, Assistant Professor for the ten-year period beginning in 1988, and Professor since 1898. During 1904 and 1905 he lectured at the Sorbonne and other French universities. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Last fall he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
...have so long regarded Professor Wendell as one of Harvard's unchanging institutions that it is hard to believe that he will not be with us next year. In his long career of thirty-six years from instructor to professor he has been the scarce of almost more instruction and inspiration than any other one man. His resignation is all the more unfortunate coming after the loss of three of Harvard's most prominent scholars--Professors Royce, Parker and Muensterberg...