Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggestion is, give up a place to see the races from. Again turning to our former experience, we remember having had to push and jar our way through a crowd of half-dressed men to a couple of starting gangways and a very small porch, where we were in constant danger of getting knocked into the mud by the stampede following the nose of a barge issuing from the boat house. Now, how is the crowd which will surely assemble on the Anniversary Day to see the races comfortably? How will they see them at all? How will their lady...
...touchdowns, but were lost through careless fumbling. Then again the half-backs showed too great a desire for kicking the ball over the line instead of rushing it. The tackling was too high, a fault which seems to be always confined alone to Harvard teams and which will take constant practice to overcome. The fumbling of long kicks occurred with altogether too much frequency to insure success against either Yale or Princeton. In short, the play was much worse than anticipated, and a "brace" must be made at once...
Boston Museum. - "Harbor Lights." Harbor Lights, though why it should be so called is not made very plain to the audience, is a sensational play with a well constructed plot, and although some of the characters and situations are worn a little threadbare by constant use, nevertheless are so skillfully managed as to make it seem almost like a new play. The play is well cast and the company appear to better advantage than in the many plays which they have presented...
Prof. Cook was fond of athletic and out-door sports and especially constant in tennis playing. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and it is a grim fatality that he should receive his death-wound from a weapon to the use of which he had long been accustomed...
...speaking of Columbia's recent action in regard to the admission of women, Harpers Weekly says: The young Doctor and Bachelor, as she stood before the president and faculty and trustees and received her diploma, was a harbinger of advancing civilization, and of the constant enlightenment which makes this age brighter than its predecessors. Her presence on that academic stage meant that every opportunity of generous development shall be opened to women, and it showed that if Columbia College, cautious, wise, and much deliberating, does not refuse her honors to trained and proved scholarship and intellectual attainment merely because they...