Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pods on the Stream. Almost since it was written, in 1824, this grim, mocking little book has lain like a corpse in the cellar of English literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see what he has dug up. This printing is only the second in more than a century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above...
Moors Hall has been paid for almost entirely from funds donoted by John F. Moors '83. It is named after his mother, the late Mary Lothrop Moors...
...operator can feed a problem into Mark III in a fraction of the time required by Mark II and any other calculating machines in use at the present time. Very complex problems that used to take days and weeks to "code" for the machine can now be prepared almost as quickly as an operator can punch the keys...
...troublesome early years and started its amazingly rapid growth. In 1915, Ray Lyman Wilber became president and completed the job of making Stanford a leading educational institution. He anticipated general education with a "lower division" program requiring a student to divide his studies for his first two years almost equally among the three general fields, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. Donald B. Tresidder was president from the early thirties until his sudden death two years ago. His extremely friendly relationship with the students is greatly responsible for that current phenomenon, Stanford spirit...
...front of the library or strolling to the Cellar for a cup of coffee. It is virtually a university policy that there be at least one open dance on campus each weekend. The aim is to provide a complete life for each student right on campus. This is almost accomplished except that Mr. and Mrs. Stanford insisted that no liquor should ever be allowed at their college...