Word: almost
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...come to the close of another week, we note with almost a shiver the rapid flight of time which has nearly brought us to the end of our first collegiate month,- one ninth of the college year already gone. Scarcely yet has the Tabular View been fully committed, the new names of classes rightly applied, or any one fairly settled down to the plan of work he had laid out for himself. Wonderfully seductive are these golden autumn days to lovers of the country and out-door sports, and although, by dint of required recitations judiciously disposed from the first...
...swell beyond proportion, and with these neither "fate" nor "misfortune" has had anything to do. The records of the past week have made known a heavy embezzlement by the cashier of the Treasury Department of the State of New York, amounting to $ 300,000, developing a system of fraud almost unparaleled. Within the past year defalcation after defalcation has come to light both in cities and in country towns, - Boston, Brooklyn, New York, Lowell, Hingham, to say nothing of similar cases in our Western and Southwestern States, has proved how unworthy of trust have been those persons who have occupied...
...sheets of the Harvard Directory for this year. It will be remembered that the first issue of this handy little pamphlet appeared last year, and was at once greeted as a most useful publication. The regular Catalogue is published so late in the year that we really know where almost every fellow rooms ere we have opportunity of referring to its pages. But the Directory, published thus early in the term, is indispensable to every student...
...property of a society; and since the departure of '72 and '73 we surmise that this society is far from comprising a majority of the students. The outsiders who frequent the hall probably do not realize that they are trespassing on the rights of others, and it is almost excusable that they should not realize...
...privileges of the Reading-Room are almost invaluable, and can only be properly appreciated by those of us who experienced the want of them; they are so important that it would be worth while to retain them at almost any inconvenience, even at that of refusing admission to all who could not show in some way at the door that they were regular members of the association...