Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Committee on Theatrical Entertainments, to give shortly in Boston a series of two or three theatricals will, no doubt, strike many with surprise. Yet such is the fact. The difficulty of obtaining such permission has been so great of late years, that entertainments of this kind are almost matters of the past. Yet the Committee have been pleased to consider favorably a petition sent in by some members of Seventy-Nine, and have given their assent, imposing very few conditions. These performances are to be given in aid of the University Boat Club, by the Senior Class as a whole...
...cores, it is the cores, my soul," as the Freshman remarked when almost choked by the Memorial Hall apple-sauce...
SINCE the speaking was so successful, it is all the more to be regretted that the decisions of the judges were not successful also. We say this weighing our words, for there were few indeed, we had almost said none, of those who heard the speaking, who were not disappointed and surprised at the award of the prizes. We would not for a moment question either the undoubted merits of the successful competitors, or the wishes of the gentlemen who acted as judges to do their best in a very difficult and, to some of them apparently, a novel position...
...Although the summa cum laude was not attained by any member of the class, it is well known that one at least came so near as only to miss it; and to another triple honors were awarded, the highest in two studies, and honors in a third, - a distinction almost without precedent. We bid adieu to '78. Many faces long familiar will be missed from our accustomed paths, but in their places will arise pleasant memories of the past, and with these will be associated youth's bright hopes for the future...
...almost every one knows, the N. Y. and N. E. R. R. have agreed to run, on the day of the race, a train of platform cars, furnished with seats arranged in tiers, from the start to the finish. The track runs along the bank of the Thames River, and there are only two or three points in the entire distance where trees or other objects shut out a view of the course. Each car will accommodate about eighty persons. Several cars have already been engaged by gentlemen from New Haven, and we earnestly advise our enterprising men to open...