Word: never
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News claims that the track athletics of the college never looked so promising as at present, and that the students are confident of having the Mott Haven cup next year...
...Harvard Union will open its meeting for the year by a discussion of the issues of the approaching political campaign. A public debate of such a nature as this never fails to arouse a widespread interest among the students, and calls out many good speakers who ordinarily do not participate in the meetings. Upon a topic of such living interest nearly every member of the college should have something to say and much to hear. Many men while in college are personally interested in the success of their political party, and if induced to state the reasons for their support...
...receive the new plan for religious worship. The noble words of Phillips Brooks - "We now give you religion, with the only foreign element which it formerly had, removed; we appeal to your humanity to preserve it. We appeal to you as men, not as students" - these words will never be forgotten by those who heard them at the time. It must be gratifying to the men who granted with doubt and fearing the almost unanimous petition of the students, to see the hearty way in which they join in the service and the numbers in which they attend...
...Annex was never in so flourishing a condition as it is at present. At the spring and fall examinations there were more applicants for admission than ever before. The freshman class now numbers thirteen members, and several more will undoubtedly join the class in the next few days. The Annex will probably have about 85 students as compared with 75 last year. A sign of the prosperity of the Annex is the large number of advanced special students, graduates of Smith, Wellesley, and other colleges. In physics, the class is the largest ever known, and astronomy is studied...
What I want to see done away with is the officially organized untruth, which excites my indignation every time I have to carry it into execution; every professor twice a year testifies that dozens of students have been present at his lectures, who, he knows, have never set foot in his room. It has happened repeatedly that students guilelessly presented to me Professor Eck's Pandects for me to sign, thereby admitting that they did not know either Professor Eck or me by sight...