Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statue of the Sanctuary, at which so many offerings were made. Another theory is that it is the statue of the Dionysius, which stood in the Temple of Icaria. The prevalence of slabs containing the inscription "Dionysius" would tend to show that the latter theory is correct...
...reading of a newspaper article or some paragraph from a book completely unintelligible owing to the wretched presentation of the reader, who has no conception of the proper means of making the matter understood! We hear more slovenly enunciation and villainous pronunciation than we hear careful and correct, for the main reason that men have not had their attention drawn to their mistakes and they continue in blunders which a little study would prevent. This is what is given in the elocution sections and those who have taken this work testify to its value in their petition. We feel certain...
...article which we published recently concerning the freshman nine seems already to have had the desired effect of awakening the energies of the then nearly dormant nine, and of bringing before it a correct idea of what the college has a right to expect that it will accomplish this spring. The number of candidates almost immediately doubled and all set to work with an energy and vim which was truly admirable, but only suggestive of the great difficulties which will have to be overcome if a respectable nine is to be placed in the field this year. The system...
FOUND.- A gold scarf-pin of some value. Found in the college yard about a year ago. Can be obtained by sending correct description to 14 Wadsworth...
...another during the three or four busy hours. The photographic plates obtained were not all developed at once, but a sufficiency of each set to show that the apparatus was in good order. The time signal of the observatory was critically compared on Saturday, and was found to be correct, within one-tenth of a second...