Word: ever
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Sadly silent all the robins; sleeping were the swallows ever...
...from time immemorial to appoint to the office of treasurer some student whose life has, until that moment, been divided between study and play, and whose time is generally pretty thoroughly occupied without his financial duties. The result of this arrangement is that, although no instance of dishonesty has ever come to our knowledge, the financial management of almost every society is constantly changing hands, is constantly confided to the care of inexperienced young men, and is very frequently found to be clumsy and unsatisfactory...
...their line in this country, the numbers dwindled down to a sturdy few, who were willing to brave rain, storm, bad ventilation, and the attractions offered by the "Athens of America," and were, as far as I can learn, never sorry for it. In fact, I doubt if ever any man could be sorry that he put himself to any inconvenience for the sake of hearing Cervantes translated and commented on by a James Russell Lowell...
...have all the advantage of a book translation, plus the interest which you feel from being in almost personal contact with the translator. May those blessed evenings in which we communed, as it were, with the spirit of AEschylus, Homer, and Aristophanes, come again! The dullest soul that ever breathed could not listen to that spirited rendering of Virgil without his soul kindling into enthusiasm and admiration...
...them; and the exclusion might easily be avoided by a less fundamental change in the character of the exercises. The rush, in fact, might be abolished. The four classes might gather and cheer each other to their hearts' content; the union of the students might be as strong as ever; while the rushing rings, the bad hats, the squabbles, and the trophies of old Class Day might be allowed to lapse with mock parts, required studies, and class feeling into the memories of the past...