Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bloomington, Indiana, not Illinois, that the Civil Service Reform League, composed mostly of professors and students of Indiana University, has offered prizes for essays on the Civil Service, as stated in the CRIMSON of March 6. I ask you to make the correction since the two Bloomingtons are so often confounded, and the Hoosiers desire "honor to whom honor...
...hostile territory every captured town, every hospital, and every source of supply had to be guarded by Union troops. The speaker thought that the effect of the difference in the ability of the generals pitted against each other was overrated; the enthusiasm and discipline of the army as often decided the battle as the leaders...
...poetic genius, not with the poetic art. The genius needs the art for its perfection, and the art needs experience, if it is to aid the genius at all successfully. Moreover, the matter of genius aside, as long as poems by young writers are readable, and, as they often are even very creditable, such poems are worth writing and publishing. We believe that to-day the poems in college papere are among the most attractive features, and do not expect than any but such severe critics as Mr Howells can wish the young writers checked in their writing...
...least very much neglected. We grant that the matter is of slight importance, but still we think the custom a sufficiently valuable one to be continued, and certainly we can see no good reason for its discontinuance. To those, who take part in the services, the numbers are often useful...
...with their governments, and many others had seen relatives and dear friends arrested, on mere suspicion, and banished even without trial. Naturally politics was the ill-absorbing topic of conversation, and, as may be imagined, the young reformers, although united in opposition to the existing evils of society, were often divided by the most conflicting opinions as to the remedy of those evils. The club to which the young American belonged, was a veritable centre of political news; and many of the members were active writers for the press, and also corresponded with leading politicians. Writing and teaching...