Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...benefit. Moreover, we ought to have free coinage to protect the silver interest. We protect other industries and should not make an exception to the detriment of the silver men. We need an increasing currency to meet the constantly increasing demands of the business of the country. Almost the entire annual yield of gold is used in the arts, so that if we are to have more money it must be silver...
...nations. The great works of Schiller and Goethe, white lifting German literature to a higher plane, had tended to remove it further and further away from the understanding of the masses. The Romantic School endeavored to restore literature to the place it held in the Middle Ages when almost the whole intellectual activity of the nation centered in its poetry. The Middle Ages became the ideal of the Romanticists; mediaeval subjects were chosen by preface and mediaeval forms of expression were affected. In so far as the movement corrected a prevading one-sidedness in favor of certain ideas...
Several complaints of thieving at the gymnasium have recently been made, which prompt us to give a general caution. It is a humiliating fact, that, among a body of two thousand students, there are almost sure to be a few without principles of honesty. This year three overcoats with money and valuables have been lost, and numerous towels have mysteriously disappeared. The gymnasium authorities are unable to prevent this while men leave their property scattered around so carelessly as at present. The men using the lockers must understand that they do so at their own risk and so must...
Work is being pushed on the Cary building in order to get it roofed in before a heavy show fall; otherwise work would be very much retarded. The wings are almost entirely covered, and the material is all ready to cover the main portion but owing to the weather, it is almost impossible to lay the brick for the outside walls. The work on the tank is being rapidly advanced, and it certainly will be ready for the crew by the middle of January. The whole building will be completed somewhere about the first of March...
...become more popular and effective. Last year it was the common practice never to kick until forced by the third down; this year many a good punt has been put in at the second down, and some even at the first. The tackling has improved, and there are today almost no poor tacklers on any of the association teams. The running would not have been by any means able to keep pace with this had it not been for interference. This system of assistance to a runner, which has come to be known as interference, is the real feature...