Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evil effects of the examination system have been often commented on. One point, however, has never been mentioned, and that is the disastrous result they bring upon the financial prosperity of the country. One of the Harvard square barbers says that every time the examinations come round his trade so falls off as to materially affect his profits. Probably, though, whatever the barber loses goes to the oil producer for "midnight oil," so that no serious crisis is imminent...
...drear, and dark, and gloom, as thou hast often seen...
...state of mind of the writer when subscribing his name, I have fancied, may be often seen from his handwriting. Some there are who seem to be frightened, so as almost to be unable to leave a legible trace; others seem inspired by their surroundings and turn out specimens that would be creditable to a writing academy. Young ladies seem to be the majority of those who put down their names. Very often there appears a long list of ladies' names, from some distant place, grouped in a pleasant chorus...
...report of one of the most harrowing outrages of the season comes to us from the back-woods of Maine. We have often taken occasion before this to comment upon the awfulness and depravity of the practice of hazing, and Bowdoin College has more than once furnished us a text. But now a case has happened at that college over which it little behooves the public to make light. One freshman, it is reported, after long and vain entreaties on the part of the authorities and assurances of protection, has at last tremblingly confessed the story of his wrongs...
...polemic speculative divine, (such as Abelard), who wished to make theology rational. Second, the system of conferring degrees, after appropriate trials. These were at first simply a license to teach. Third, the formal organization of the primitive university. Europe was unsettled; even in the capitals, the civil power was often unhinged. Wherever multitudes came together there was manifested a spirit of turbulence. The universities often exemplified this fact; and it was found necessary to establish a government within themselves, the leading feature of which was the office called the rectorship, the incumbent of which had the power of internal regulation...