Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...steam launch for the boat club is almost completed...
...recent discussion of the best method to adopt, in the improvement of style in writing revives the subject of college reading. A well read college man is a rarety; almost an anomily. It is true that we cannot all with Mill read Thucydides in the cradle, nor do we care to read Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that...
...simply to "browse" through the library. But this aimless wandering inculcates the habit of indiscriminate reading, a habit not to be classed with the custom of omnivorous reading, which is, perhaps, the only safe method to be pursued in a determined course of reading. An omnivorous reader is almost invariably a a thinker of acumen. There is something in being brought face to face with matured thoughts upon indiscriminate topics which is stimulating to a high degree. We hear again and again the cry that this is an over-read world, and that scholars are degenerating into book-worms...
...return to the discussion of style. Of the many circumstances which contribute to the formation of a style, reading is but one. Desultory reading, if care is not exercised, will almost invariably induce a looseness of handling in writing and a lack of distinct expression. A close study of the very first masters of English prose is, perhaps, the only means open to students who cannot afford to gain the cultivation offered by the composition courses. Even among standard authors a choice should be made. This is a point, however, which each student must exercise his individual taste. But upon...
...lecture this evening, is a subject that is certain to appeal to college men, alike to the active and to the inactive. The subject is specially appropriate for the closing lecture of a course on the professions. The question of spending times of leisure properly and profitably is almost as important as that of finding a vocation and pursuing it successfully. The term "leisure" has come to have two very different meanings. One man of leisure is never idle; another always is. The former makes his leisure, as it were, play into his regular work; the latter lives...