Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deal more minutely with the somewhat different methods in use at the Harvard School, we find that most other institutions of architectural training base their ideas almost exclusively on the example set by the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts. At Harvard the strong points of the French School in plan and composition are profited by as far as possible, but instead of following the tradition of the Ecole in the working out of designs and especially in the treatment of detail which are often of questionable taste, the student is encouraged to found his work on a study...
First, a want of logic, almost absurdity. characters say the opposite of what they would naturally say, and do the opposite of what they would naturally do. They do not speak; they declaim. The situations are exceptional and extraordinary. The characters are all conventional: The old man, the young man pursued by fate, the traitor, the mysterious man who knows everything...
...Carey Building is almost completed, and although it will be two weeks or more before the work will be completely finished, the cage will probably be in good enough condition to permit its being used next week...
...speak of its services to Freshman debating, almost the existence of a Freshman club rests on the interest aroused by rivalry with some other organization, and now that Yale freshman debates are forbidden some definite adversary is needed to keep the men up to their best work and render the club as good a training ground as possible. This service the Sophomore Club has thus far well rendered, and the importance of continuing the good work must be recognized. In its contests with the Freshman Club it labors under the disadvantage of having its honorary members who are on either...
From this fact it will be seen what determined the choice of subjects which occupied Victor Hugo's imagination. Love hardly inspired him. On the other hand he celebrated family affection; and was almost the only one in France who could write about children. In the third place, he busied himself in his verse with the chronicle of daily life, especially political life. In his various collections of works he transcribed the opinions which swayed the French mind. He was a royalist in his "Odes," an advocate of independence in his "Orientales," a revolutionist in his "Feuilles d'Automne...