Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...record. It is apparent from the interest which has been shown in this branch of athletics this fall, and the success which attended the recent meeting of the association, our prospects for making a good showing at the Inter-Collegiate games next spring, are unusually bright. But; as has often been said before, it is only by continued hard and faithful work on the part of every man on the team that Yale can hope to win the cup next year. - Yale News...
...ages there was, in truth, much of that democratic spirit which we are prone to attribute to our own day. The guilds, the monasteries, and the orders of the templars were voluntary associations, and have their counterpart in many of our organizations of to-day. The word University is often missed or misunderstood. The latin Universitas means nothing more than corporation. Universities are but corporations. There was not any necessary assemblage of brain or wit in one place in order to form an University...
...fresh young voices of the College Glee Club sounded very sweet as the grand old ode heard so often rang through the building...
...When one can eat at the same board with such men as sat in Memorial Hall on November 8, 1886, and hear such a flow of eloquence issue from their lips as then was heard, then he may boldly say that he has "lived to eat." It is not often that even a Harvard graduate may listen at once to after-dinner speeches by President Eliot, President Cleveland, Sir Lyon Playfair, Judge Devens and Mr. Geo. William Curtis. All of these addresses were remarkable for their strength and depth of sentiment. Through all of them there ran a just pride...
...kicked a goal from the touchdown, and as by this time the rain was coming down in torrents, the game was called. Harvard made 13 touchdowns, from which Woodman kicked 9 goals. On the whole, Harvard played the best game of the year, though the backs fumbled the ball often; this was very excusable, as the ball was soaked with rain, and coated with mud. Dartmouth's captain, Odlin, played well, but his team did not support him at all. The teams were as follows: Harvard. Rushers, Holden, Bancroft, Wood, Brooks, Woodman, Butler, Harding; quarter-back, Fletcher; half-backs, Sears...