Word: ever
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recitations will be cut, summonses and warnings will be issued. Somebody will get into trouble with municipal authorities just as a streak of gray is beginning to appear on the eastern horizon; and somebody may be seen, Thiers-like, at the same hour, in a solitary garret, grinding, ever grinding. Somebody will have ambitious plans for taking honors in history, philosophy, or mathematics, and will, in three months, perhaps be forced to leave these historic shades "for neglect of regular college duties." Somebody, perhaps, announcing no elaborate plans to the world, will do solid, sustained, faithful work, and lead...
...Lowell, in responding, incidentally remarked of Professor Sibley that he [Mr. Sibley] had given more to the cause of education, in accordance with his means, than anybody else ever gave in his lifetime, and closed by saying that
...even in a numerical point of view, of all Greek courses. The study of Cervantes, Dante, and of Old French literature received an impulse from this class they had never before known, while three of her members have climbed to dizzy heights in Mathematics which have been rarely, if ever, trodden by undergraduate feet. We venture to predict that it is a class that will most emphatically be "heard of again." We wish them all god-speed in every good work...
FEWER strangers were in Springfield at the time of the Columbia race than at any other College regatta ever rowed there, and comparatively little interest was taken in the event; but on Friday a much larger crowd and more intense interest was everywhere to be seen. In regard to the merits of the three crews, it was generally considered that Yale's form was the best, but Harvard's muscle much superior to that of either of her opponents; while Columbia excelled only in pluck. Before the Yale race came off, however, Harvard made rapid improvement, and at the time...
That hasten'st ever swiftly here...