Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduate of the University now studying at the Harvard Law School has recently written to the California Alumni Fortnightly concerning Harvard, ... "Though the knowledge of the Western section of the country among the undergraduates," says the writer, "is almost nil, I find the graduate students are mostly from the West and South." The dormitories and the Union strongly impress the Californian. "All of us," he says, "who have seen the Harvard Union and its large service to the University recognize that such an institution is badly needed at California." Just at this moment it is well to receive this suggestion...
...side-horse event, Jones, of Brown, Captain W. Campbell '16, and Abbott, of Brown, the three men who won first, second, and third places respectively, were almost on a par, there being not more than two points difference between the first and third...
...magazines for the kind of personal interpretation in black and white, which a generation and more ago called into being Kingsley, King, Church, Kruel, and a host of others whose names were then household words. To the rising generation the very names of those honorable artists and craftsmen are almost unknown. The once flourishing school of American wood-engravers has virtually dwindled to two: Timothy Cole and Henry Wolf, whose art is called into service by only a very few magazine publishers and by occasional collectors and amateurs, who still prefer the once popular engraving to the photograph or process...
...lack of intelligent interest in the war on the part of undergraduates. Mr. Burman's "Nail in the Shoe" is the best of the stories, but the reviewer is sentimental enough to wish that the cynical conclusion had not been added. Mr. Babcock's "Willie's Golden Moment" is almost as bad as a story can be. It is to a good dime novel as a melodrama of the movies to a real tragedy. As for Mr. Burk's fragmentary "Delay," a Senior editor should know better than to set such an example of halfdone work...
...practically all undergraduate performances of this nature. First, an inadequate orchestra: both the orchestration and the orchestral performance were far in advance of those of late years, but there was an empty and sometimes an acid quality for which the players were in no way responsible, but which was almost entirely due to the absence of those most important of "fillers"--the horns. It has been proved too often to be a subject for debate that the fullest and most skillful orchestral support is none too good for an amateur performance. Economy practiced at the expense of the orchestra...