Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Record in publishing the story we are unable; we give it the credit, however, of ingenuous and honorable motives. To claim the item as a Harvard "sneer" is only one more of the innumerable slanders upon this college by the public press, about which we have so often to complain...
...compulsory recitation, with marks, has disappeared. The recitation has become a conference. The student meets his instructor, not because he is obliged to, but because he can master his subject better with his help. The instructor often does the reciting himself, expounding and illustrating his subject, and occasionally calling on some member of the class to read or explain. In this way ground is rapidly traversed and everybody's time saved...
...roof. The students' wants are attended to by colored waiters, who can always be bribed by a little douceur. The sunlight falls through 'storied windows richly dight,' and stains with Iris the snowy linen of fifty tables. On six courses dines the aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon, straw berries in February, and all the delicacies that belong to the menu of a first-class hotel. Such a thing as a marked violation of good breeding is almost...
...rambling mass of generalizations. For the paper in question has certainly misrepresented the state of affairs, but we trust unintentionally so. This "quarrel," waged with such bitterness, exists only in the minds of the outside world. To be sure, there is a spirit of rivalry which may often carry the students of both colleges to excess...
Although it is not often the case that Harvard feels satisfied when it occupies any place but first, whether it be in contests of brains or muscle, still our place gained by the eleven in the inter-collegiate foot-ball games this fall, under the existing circumstances, cannot deserve any complaint and dissatisfaction. Never before have the then leading elevens been more evenly matched and whatever criticisms the play of the victors may have evoked it was plain that by their superior muscular development and combined methods they fairly deserved the place they hold. With the chances apparently against...