Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mean to say that there is anything improper in an undergraduate's appearing at a graduate's "festive board," or in their honoring together their common mother from the graduate's "flowing bowl," but the undergraduate should wait for an invitation and not intrude unbidden upon the company of his elders...
...While the real reason is this: the Harvard man seeks amusement; he finds it one year in rowing or running, the next year he is tired of these and looks around for some new pursuit with which to divert himself. This feeling is not peculiar to him, it is common to all mankind. The inhabitants of a city are amused by spelling-matches for a time; they get tired of these, and are amused by wrestling-matches, of which they also soon become wearied. So let us not think that our students are morally or physically weak, because they refuse...
...rowed in a shell. Seligman hugged the bank so closely after starting that he succeeded in running aground several times before the stake-boats were reached. He pulled a rather quick and strong stroke, but used his arms too much and swung his body too little, - a fault very common among men who have learned to scull in boats with sliding seats. Danforth turned first, and won easily by about thirty seconds. He pulled a long, easy stroke, and showed pretty good form...
...GRAMMAR. - The principles of French grammar will be explained, but elementary grammar as such will not be taught; that is, it will be taken for granted that the common forms and rules are known, but the reasons of various changes of form and the general laws that have given rise to special rules of syntax will be studied...
Such landmarks are gradually disappearing, and each steals from us, as it goes, its fund of interest and association. We trust, the "Old Powder-House" may not meet the common fate, on its windy perch, surrounded by barren acres of stunted pasture, beyond whose limit civilization seems unwilling to trespass; it has preserved an atmosphere of its own; wind and storm have played their pranks with its aged walls for many a year, but it has stood them bravely. Let us hope that its fortunes escape the devastating hand of improvement and survive to see an age when...