Word: wellnigh
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...large lecture-room. Fine Arts 2, a course which has a larger attendance and which exerts a greater influence than any other elective, requires a much better room than can be at present given to it. To take notes and sit with any ease in Upper Holden is wellnigh impossible; while the difficulty of showing engravings and illustrations to the class is very great. This leads to another idea. There is no reason why the recitation-rooms should not be made attractive. If rope-matting be out of the question, why should not appropriate pictures and maps, at least...
...bruises and barked shins serve us right, they certainly can have no objection if we are in at half past five or six in the evening. At this reasonable and moderate hour some of our entries are, at this season of the year, wellnigh as dark as they are at eleven; and yet the gas, especially on Saturday evenings, is often not turned on till seven or eight. The need of light is felt especially in the lower halls of Matthews and Holyoke, and a serious accident which occurred in the latter building one evening last week shows that...
...Lawrence Scientific School, and up to the time of his death, with the exception of two years during which he was associated with a medical college at Charleston, S. C., has been connected with Harvard. To describe Professor Agassiz's scientific labors since his arrival in this country is wellnigh impossible: he was always ready to lecture, sent valuable contributions to magazines, read instructive papers before scientific associations, was busy in the laboratory, observed and tried to solve the secrets of nature, gathered an immense store of specimens, undertook the publication of works requiring an almost incredible amount of labor...
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...students is concerned, we claim that it has, or ought to have, a powerful rival in the simple exercise which is the subject of this article. For the professional gymnast, the athlete who aspires to honor with the bat or the oar, the training of the gymnasium is wellnigh indispensable. But for the scholar, whose thoughts are turned in another direction, a different but no less manly and (to him) effective exercise is as well adapted. He comes to college for the sole purpose of mental culture, feeling that health, not muscle, is the first means to this end. With...