Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interests of class and Alma Mater which causes so many of our athletes to remain in active training during the coming vacation, which is to bring to other members of the University much welcomed rest and recreation. We believe that this self-imposed discipline which is so common as to seem at times almost commonplace, is one of the most useful and moral influences of the University life, and in its effects reaches far beyond the men immediately concerned. The mere winning or losing of a race may in itself be of little importance. The ennobling thing after...
...been purely historical. Some authorities say that Plautus was simply a translator and an imitator, while others maintain that he treated his models with great freedom and originality. The latter opinion is probably more just, for the passage of plots from one author to another is permissible and common in the history of literature...
...George Birkbeck Hill's interesting and valuable comments on Harvard life, he greatly regrets the lack here of any Hall or Common Rooms to help bridge the distance between teachers and pupils, and to be in some sort the center of the social life of the University. With such Common Rooms, and the hospitable gatherings in them, he had been familiar at Oxford, and so doubtless felt their want keenly; but though he desired them keenly; but though he desired them earnestly for Harvard, he cannot have desired them half so earnestly as she does herself. Fortunately...
...universities and lost a very delightful privilege. It will be pleasant at last to be able to welcome distinguished guests as they and the University alike deserve. But the greatest value of Phillips Brooks House will be that it gives for the first time to instructors and students a common meeting place where official dignity and the distant deference due to it may both be set aside; where the young man may meet the older as a friend and profit by influences which are not felt in the lecture room; and where the perfect harmony of view may be established...
...work of perfecting the apparatus is now almost completed and several promising tests have already been made. In these tests the testing machine has been attached to a common rowing machine which was marked by some man on the 'varsity crew. Some of the crew coaches and Manager Borden have witnessed the tests...