Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Preparations for the Freshman Jubilees which will take place Tuesday afternoon in the quadrangle are now almost completed. During the afternoon there will be private teas given in various students rooms. Just before the supper, which is to be held at six o'clock in the quadrangle, special musical selections will be given by J. Sargent, Jr., H. Elliott, Jr., and A. L. Steinert, followed by an informal concert by the Freshman orchestra...
...more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was deeply affected last week as he told a New York audience that Americans seemed to feel that loss,--the loss of a thorough sport,--almost more than Englishmen themselves...
...Harvard Alumni Bulletin is a very essential and important element in the progress of the University. The future success of any university is so greatly dependent upon the graduates of the institution that an alumni publication of the right kind is almost an absolute necessity. The Bulletin is the vehicle for the expression of graduate opinion and the chief link between the alumni and the important phases of college life. It also serves as an information bulletin to all graduates in which they may read from week to week of the doings of their classmates and friends. The Bulletin publishes...
...Almost every one of the 572 contestants in the Intercollegiate Championships has been in some branch of the service, and will consequently be eligible to represent this country in the army games. A large number of star athletes have already singed up for the allied meet, including several intercollegiate champions who are going out for records on Friday and Saturday...
...just this amount, this little smattering of latin, is enough to make the whole difference in any man's outlook upon civilization. This bonus bona, bonum' makes French and Spanish and Italian easy to him. It puts him at home in half the words of the English language. Almost everything an educated man has to do with is tinged with 'bonus, bona, bonum...