Word: ever
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lack of sympathy in the Faculty, and bitter personal opposition out of the Faculty. He has established a department which does not pretend to be remarkably scholarly, but which does its best with the problem before it, a problem that none but men who do not teach English have ever solved to their own satisfaction. Loaded down with undergraduate literature, making many mistakes of method in instruction where all methods are as yet experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more gratitude to the critic at once severe and kind who has already made something...
...that I was a member of the first and worst sophomore class that Professor Hill ever taught; that as student, as tutor in Greek, and as instructor in English, I have watched the growth of the English Department from its very birth; and lastly, that I write this letter without either the approval or the knowledge of Professor Hill...
...Abstract, a little had penny sheet published by some small boys at Chauncy Hall School, asks, under the heading "Squibs." "What good is Harvard anyway?" Little boys did you ever read the story of the fox and the sour grapes...
Roland W. Boyden, L. S., pulled on the tug-of-war last Saturday, instead of Chase, as reported, and he proved a very strong addition to the team. Experts who saw the games say that the Columbia anchor was subjected to the most terrific strain that has ever been their lot to witness. In addition to the medals, our team was presented with a handsome, silver fringed, silk banner, which will soon be placed in the trophy room. The team was treated with the greatest courtesy while in New York, and wish to acknowledge especially the courtesy of Mr. Schuyler...
...mournful tale is enhanced by some of the most extraordinary drawings, from the pencil of Mr. Cranch, that we have ever seen, and the whole makes an amusing pleasure book well worth perusal...