Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...audience showed its high expectation by a warm reception, and Mr. Kneisel surpassed all expectations. The movement from Brahms' concerto, which an inferior violinist would have handled with much show and gusto, Mr. Kneisel played with charming simplicity and grace. The extremely difficult cadenza was played with an ease almost wonderful. The concerto itself was a trifle too much like Brahms, lacking considerably in melody...
...fiction of the number, "How We Routed the Ghosts," is, as its title indicates, a modern ghost story, and a local one at that. The plot of the tale is very slender, the language is at times ill chosen and the humor is so excessively fine as to be almost imperceptible...
...very glad to note Harvard's growing strength in the far Western States. In the years before the war, almost all of Harvard's graduates settled in the East, while a large portion of Yale's went to the West. Of late years, however, many of Harvard's representative have been going west of the Mississippi. Their presence there shows in the energy and strength of the Harvard Clubs which they have established; it shows in the royal welcome they have given to their former teacher. His presence and words, in turn, have given renewed zest to the interest they...
Although the cathedral escaped almost entirely during the civil war, a great amount of damage was done by an architect by the name of Wight, who was "let loose" inside, and who "did more harm than the whole of Cromwell's army could have done...
...founded over a hundred years ago by constitutional provision, and the site selected for it at Chapel Hill, N. C., was chosen peculiarly with a view to its healthful position-on the top of "a sandy hill in the middle of the State, where the rain water disappears almost instantaneously, and for miles away you look down upon pines that are health-giving." The climate is mild and balmy. Seldom is there any winter. "The buildings, like those of Northern colleges of the grade of Dartmouth, Brown or Amherst, never had any doors apparently, and do not need them...