Word: moment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this when the receipts from the freshman musical clubs can not be expected to be large and when those from the nine will be practically insignificant. There can no longer be any excuse for withholding or delaying subscriptions. The freshman crew has too often been left till the last moment without money enough to take them to New London. They can not go on the strength of mere promises to pay; they must have cash to cover the cost of their trip...
...admirable account of the college from its earliest days to the present time. The writer has a pleasant, rather old-fashioned, literary quality, which lends itself better to narration and comment than to the making of any lively or complete impressions of our complex academic life at the passing moment. Dr. Birkbeck Hill was evidently deceived in one or two minor traits of college civilization by undergraduates with a taste for the American joke. In the main, this English writer's statements are correct, his few strictures richly deserved, his generous praise well bestowed...
...over the competition in which the brain prevails. We believe, however, that even now the sober praise which Harvard men never deny to scholarly ability is far more significant than the lavish commendation which they so recklessly bestow on the favored athlete. The latter is an affair of the moment, called forth by an enthusiasm which passes away with its immediate cause; the former will last as long as he who has won it shall live to enjoy...
...advised if not, indeed, impossible, it may be said with certainty that any such procedure on the part of Harvard as that so confidently outlined in the Boston Herald of yesterday, is entirely opposed to the sentiment of the undergraduates, and was, we believe, not contemplated for one moment by those to whose influence the recent change in the situation...
...they must ascend to blessedness. In few other works of men do we find such uninterrupted consistency of purpose as in the Divine Comedy. From the beginning to the end of the poem the aim of Dante is to guide his fellow men to righteousness and never for a moment do we lose sight of the great, resolute purpose of the poet...