Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...university with a stock of knowledge manufactured on the above principles. But in spite of these precautions the spirit of the nineteenth century does reach the susceptible youths, and the consequence is that the students are plagued with communism, socialism, nihilism, and other isms, keeping the "courts" in constant session...
...those men who have been nominally training have not so far taken a course calculated to raise the greatest hopes of their success, but we feel confident that they are capable of a great deal. What is needed is good faithful training on the part of the men, and constant attention from the captain in keeping them at work. During the vacation they will have the unusual advantage of practice with the Boston and other clubs, and if they make the most of such opportunities we see no reason why they will not be well able to keep Harvard...
LIGHT of my eyes and constant solace of my soul, many a time has the humblest of your slaves meant to draw aside the curtain of his being to you; but, although he has been silent while among these dogs of Giaours (whom may the Prophet roast in Gehenna !) he has not ceased to think of his Beeghaz, for how truly has our divine poet Hafiz* said...
...ought to keep his friendship in constant repair...
...remaining half of the class was Davidson McClure, of Philadelphia. He was an unlucky youth, awkward and clumsy, always hurting himself; in fact, it was a constant matter of wonder to all his relations how Davidson had managed to live so long. McClure was a hard student; and for a while all went well. But on an unlucky day he stumbled over a chair in a recitation-room, and, where any common man would merely have barked his shin, McClure broke his right arm and two fingers of his left hand. Recitations were postponed. Hardly had McClure recovered, when...