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Word: often (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...main hall at the gymnasium is too often too cool for the comfort of those exercising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/23/1882 | See Source »

...body straight on the hips, while the legs are swung straight ahead and come down on the ground with a directness that enables him to use their muscular force to the fullest extent. He is a far better type of a runner than his English rival, for the latter often extends his body forward, and uses his limbs much as the steamboats on shallow, narrow rivers do their single wheel in the stern, hence he cannot obtain their full driving power out of them in short distances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTING. | 11/17/1882 | See Source »

...Harvard, or, in fact any other college, should always feel compelled to go elsewhere for purposes of study after he has obtained his bachelor's degree. Of course we can understand the advantages of going abroad, where the elements of travel and living in a foreign land are often a great inducement to men. But there certainly is no reason for men to leave Harvard and go to Johns Hopkins. Harvard has as complete a graduate course as any college in the country. Here are gathered together men who have become famous all over the world in their several departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/11/1882 | See Source »

...steadily together, and it would be difficult to name the best players. It suffices to say that the spectators were supprised and heartily pleased at the showing of our team. The Dartmouth men naturally grew very discouraged at the up-hill game they were forced to play and often made feeble attempts to tackle their opponents as they repeatedly broke through the rush line. Our men tackled rather loosely but passed and ran beautifully, utterly demoralizing their opponents. Nearly the entire game was played inside the Dartmouth twenty-five yard line. The teams were as follows: Harvard - Rushers, Morison, Gilman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL. | 11/10/1882 | See Source »

...therefore that there might not be a copy at Harvard; and as the copy which I have is ultimately destined to find its way to the library of old Cambridge University, I thought I should like the sister copy to go to the Cambridge across the water, which is often in our thoughts here, and with which I have been glad to feel myself in more living connection through my friend the Rev. Dr. Hale, who has kindly consented to be the bearer of this little message...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OCTOBER BULLETIN. | 11/6/1882 | See Source »

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