Word: ever
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Peabody's ever ready sympathy and his many acts of kindness gave him so unusually strong a hold upon the affections of the Harvard students in the last thirty years that it seems especially fitting for the alumni of the College to associate his name with a constantly recurring beneficence to their successors in the years to come...
...university crew has rowed on the harbor every day this week with the exception of Monday and Friday. A new barge has been tried, one much lighter than has been used before. The question as to who shall stroke the crew remains as unsettled as ever, Armstrong and Miller still alternating at the position...
...have abused the privileges of the Library have been so often exposed and held up to scorn that it is a wonder they, and others like them, do not take a warning. Ever since the fine system has been introduced a certain set of men have made it a business to keep books for days and even for weeks after they were due. I have been very anxious to get a certain book due February 1, but the gentleman who has it now is bound to keep it out of circulation. Several offences of a similar nature have been reported...
...evils of publicity are not, how-ever, limited to disturbing the proper relations between mental and physical training. There is beyond this the offensive notoriety from which the press allows no football player to escape. Gentlemanly games are reduced to the same level as professional exhibitions and the tone of collegiate contests is inevitably lowered, by the sensational importance which attaches to them in the papers. For this, it must be admitted, there is some excuse. When college men admit to their sports any one who will pay for the entertainment, and carry this practice into cities where there...
...Gainsborough left Bath and moved to London, a migration which was due to the well-meant but intolerable persecution of his friend Fickness. At London he was more successful than ever. The queen invited him to paint her portrait. He did it so well that he was asked to paint the portraits of all the royal family. In 1784 he sent a full length picture of the three princesses to the Royal Academy, which he requested to be hung on a line with the eye. This the officials refused to do, and the matter ended by his withdrawing the picture...