Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next morning has a cough or cold to help him in his grinding. Plank walks to the library would prove a great blessing. As it is now, not a path leading to that building is not covered on a mild day with a layer of melting slush or mud almost as deep. The remedy is simple and not expensive. With plank walks in some places and not in others a false sense of security from wet feet grows up, which is rudely broken as often as one makes his way libraryward...
...periods of our history in detail can best beget a reasonable patriotism, and help to promote among educated men wise political counsels and disinterested citizenship. And in no subject is the direction of scholarly teachers through well-planed courses so much needed as in the tentative and as yet almost unwritten subject of American history. It is therefore greatly to be hoped that next year the college may offer an additional course, supplementary to History 13, under a competent instructor. If it were a thesis or a seminar course it would be so much the better adapted to the character...
Prof. Hennequin, of Ann Arbor University, has almost completed a French and American dictionary, begun by Prof. Fasquelle, which will for the first time present the philology of both languages in juxtaposition. It will be issued during the coming year...
...compelled them to leave college either temporarily or permanently. To fill the gap thus caused in its working force the paper hopes to see more cooperation on the part of interested outsiders, especially from the under-classmen. The work hither to done by eighty-six has been confined almost entirely to the men at present on the board, giving no chance for the selection of additional editors to fill up the quota from that class. As for eighty-seven, so little work has been produced by them that great delay will be caused in finding freshman editors unless they show...
...other writers. Mr. Louis Schmidt, Jr., played a "Fantansia Appassionata" for violin by Neutemps with a remarkable execution. It is of a class of compositions which have passed their day of great popularity, and while they are extremely well adapted to display the capabilities of the violin, are almost entirely devoid of real feeling...