Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, since it's dark almost all the time you are in a theatre. I don't see that it makes a great deal of difference whether the seats match the gowns or not. And the intermissions aren't long. Besides, who stays in theatre seats during intermissions...
...students has always been a marked avoidance of any regulations which would in any way smack of paternalism. It is a good policy but it implies a sense of responsibility and a working knowledge of the dictates of good taste on the part of her undergraduates. To an almost remarkable degree it has been successful. But in the case of the annual initiations of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770, there has been an increasing tendency to impose upon the leniency of the authorities...
George Herbert Palmer remains almost alone of the great generation of men like Royce and Santayana, that surrounded President Eliot during the early years of his administration. In a very real sense, Professor Palmer is a powerful bond connecting the little New England college of the seventies with the University of today. He is one who grew with the growth of Harvard; who saw, the while his own name attained distinction, the institution he represented increasing likewise in influence and renown. His life through the years of his active teaching here ran a course of development parallel to that...
...prevailing misrepressentation of college and especially university existence. There seems to be a malge in the word "college" which puts the most trivial incident upon the front page." Unimportant happenings and silly pranks which-pass the unnoticed in a college town are seized upon and played by the newspapers. Almost up played by the newspapers. Almost invariably they are things which will add to the current impression fostered by the press...
...serious, work-filled life at a university might almost as well be non-existent. Exploitation of collegiate Fords, fraternity, parties and infractions of rules has created an impression on the public mind that is pitiably false...