Word: frequentative
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AMONG the few useless annoyances with which we are still afflicted, the practice of requiring blue books to be brought to the last recitation before the examination is perhaps the most exasperating. For weeks before the "Mid-Years," as the time approaches five minutes past the hour, a frequent succession of students rush wildly into Seve's, and breathlessly slap their specie on the counter, to the intense amusement of the clerks, who, always busily engaged in the back part of the store, are deaf to all prayers for haste. We know, from bitter experience, that it is absolutely impossible...
...general use and frequent abuse of this excellent word render a word upon it very desirable. It is a term altogether too expressive to be cast aside; yet at the same time it will never do to permit it to be universally applied. A world full of scrubs would be a sorry world...
...condition of the steps at the entrances of all the buildings, this winter, has been very bad, and frequent falls have been consequent...
...some time a considerable lack of interest has been manifest at the meetings, owing to the frequent absence of members to whom parts have been assigned, and the consequent non-performance of the literary exercises. In fact, the original plan has to such an extent proved a failure, that the Club has become convinced of the necessity of some radical change in its methods of procedure, to insure that success which the enterprise deserves, and of which it is still believed capable. With this end in view, a committee appointed for the purpose have arranged for the delivery...
...bulletin-board in the precise terms in which they were passed, as naturally as the notice of any examination. Whether reasons should be annexed is a matter for the Faculty to decide, but we honestly believe that by giving reasons, they would, without compromise of dignity, protect themselves against frequent misrepresentation...