Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...doing. Any student may join and it is greatly desired the there should be a large membership of students outside those who are teaching. One thing most noticeable this year is the improvement in the standard of the classes. A year or two ago it was thought that almost any student was competent to teach any of the classes, but now a man needs to be above the average on his subject ot teach there successfully...
...Brokaw Memorial athletic building at Princeton is almost completed...
...feelingly of the inspiration to study in Rome, the centre of Christianity and the receptacle of the best relics and works of art of all ages and men. He said that the associations of Rome, which so firmly fix upon the young ecclesiastic the importance of his calling, are almost of more importance than the immediate study that brings him there...
...formerly supposed that every child would learn to speak correctly and would become well acquainted with English literature by contact with English speaking people and by such reading as he did voluntarily. This was a mistaken idea. It is now changed and English holds a fair position in almost all high schools and an excellent position in all good colleges. Up to within a few years ago, and even now to a large extent, the study of education was viewed in the same way. It was thought that the only education necessary for a teacher was a thorough training...
...seems to us as if God's works were done vaguely, almost indefinitely, and yet what He does is bound by perfectly systematic laws and rules, and what we should do throughout life is to try to follow...