Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reports in regard to its probable course have appeared in the newspapers, few of them have any foundation. Its orbit is a very interesting mathematical puzzle. The observations taken here are now being worked upon and the results will be made known in a few days. The comet is almost directly overhead and can be seen with a field glass...
...Brokaw Memorial Building at Princeton is almost inclosed...
...little early as yet to give any definite news with regard to the freshman crew, though they have been working for several weeks, Almost every candidate at present has had no previous experience and their progress is necessarily slow. They are being coached by F. N. Watriss '92, and are learning as rapidly as could be expected During the the first few weeks the practice in the rowing room was devoted to the body motions, without oars. Within a few days they have been taught the motions with oars, but with fixed seats...
...last of these objections is urged by those who have seen unsatisfactory results; but this is simply because the instruction is not carried far enough It is nonsense to say it can't be taught, because a reader is both born and made, both elements are almost invariably essential. And as to the first objection, surely nothing is more grievous than to see a tolerable reader who is not helped further...
...most serious difficulty in the way of our reading, or speaking really well, is the fact that we are Anglo-Saxons, or rather, perhaps, Americans. In England there is a standard to which almost every one subscribes. In Scotland and Ireland this is less so, while in America there is almost an entire absence of such a standard, while France, through her Academies, is ahead of all other nations in this particular. If we are so behind, what better place is there to perfect our language and to set a standard than here at our University, where so many opportunities...