Word: never
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would seem as though the athletic question, in all its branches and subdivisions, would never be settled for the members of this university; or, if settled, matters must be so shaped as to give the students the greatest possible trouble and inconvenience. On a recent evening, we are informed, two students took their boxing gloves and went down to the sparring room of the gymnasium. Finding it locked, they applied at the office for the key, and were there told that some one had taken it away, presumably one of the instructors who occupy the room. Being more than surprised...
...lecture rooms and the library. There are no dormitories or dining associations. A student goes to college solely for work, and expects no class systems or class associations. He arranges his own board and lodging in some neighboring private house. In consequence of this arrangement, the faculty are never troubled with the vexing question of student disturbances...
There are a number of freshmen who have taken up the sport and have been on the field but a few weeks. The old adage that misery loves company would perhaps be appropriate, and anyone who has never played polo need not hesitate to try, his powers from the fear that he will be alone as a beginner. A sport in itself so full of skill, physical training and excitement ought not to be a matter of so little concern to the students. Of all of the different athletic games, it surely is the one in which the least general...
...first public contest took place in 1875. The game was popular from the start. The trade offered Major Wingfield a royalty of $1.25 a set on his invention, which would have yielded him by this time over $1,000,000. He declined the offer, however, and has never realized anything from the game except a gold watch and chain presented to him by public subscription. - News...
...visited Rome, and was introduced to that polyglot man who spoke in fifty-eight languages, and who, in that respect, has never been surpassed by any one - I mean of course, the Cardinal Mezzofanti. In order to puzzle the man who used to puzzle everybody, I began to speak to him in the language of Little Russia. 'What language is that?' he asked me in Italian. 'Little Russia,' I answered. 'Well, come to see me again in two weeks' he said. Two weeks passed and I presented myself to the cardinal, who for two hours spoke to me in Little...