Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...courses in elocution next year. That interest in the study of vocal training is constantly increasing is shown by the large number of candidates for the Boylston prizes who entered the recent preliminary contest. There has been much dissatisfaction among those who took elocution this year with the frequent resignations, leave-of-absence and so forth, and with the generally negligent manner and want of interest shown by the authorities...
...remain perfectly quiet presses your arm a bit, and if you remain passive she gradually becomes confidential and allows you to support her arm and shoulder and then half her weight, and finally your arm and her shoulder and elbow become so well acquainted that they exchange frequent visits without any formality whatever, and when you get on intimate terms with her arm and shoulder 'alors vous savez le reste...
...because of the honor it had of first publishing some of Dr. Holmes' most celebrated verses. Dr. Holmes was not the editor of the Collegian as has been stated, however, for the graduated from college in 1829, and the Collegian was not started until 1830. But he was a frequent contributor to the paper, and the reader, in running over its table of contents, meets many familiar titles from his pen. "To My Companions," "The Dorchester Giant," "The Cannibal," "The Spectre Pig," "Evening, by a Tailor," and "The Height of the Ridiculous," - these, with many others in the volume...
...orator of the occasion, responded to the toast of the class of '84. His speech was well received. After another selection by the quartette Mr. Chapman read the poem. He made many amusing hits at various members of the class. The reading of the poem was interrupted by frequent bursts of laughter and applause. Mr. Mumford then read the ode amidst great enthusiasm. Then the toast-master, Mr. Goodwin, gave toast after toast, all of which received apt replies. The toasts were as follows...
...unnoticed, and at which he might have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous two-column editorial, have thus once more appeased his fastidious sense of decorum and propriety. What could have been the cause of those frequent and bitter outbursts of indignation and contempt, which we now re-read as curiosities of journalistic literature, and why he should have been so cruel to us, is a question not easily answered. It may be that, at some remote period, he was a disappointed candidate for a degree...