Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often wonder whether the greedy devouring of magazine reading will not blunt the edge of their old-time appetite for classic works. It is the experience of most students to feel no such effect...
...cheerfully grant that undergraduates are often unable to make valuable criticisms about their courses. Yet, on the other hand, it is frequently worth while to look at matters from our point of view. Accordingly we should like to call the attention of the French department to the present needs of many...
Ignorance of current events is a reproach often justly cast upon college students. The reason is indifference with some, lack of time with others. The average business men and the average high school boy are better posted upon every day happenings than the great majority of students. To remedy this defect in our education and to give men a clear understanding of those events which soon pass into history, it has been proposed by some that a course in contemporaneous history should be given. The great objection to this plan, which naturally arises, is the folly of attempting...
...Lampy can be forgiven if he will cease to attempt henceforth to illumine his columns with that talismanic word, the CRIMSON. Of course the Lampoon cannot appreciate the blessings of Harvard morality and religion. But a too candid acknowledgement of a want of moral stamina and cerebral perception is often laboriously tiresome. We trust that our religious editorials will now do a great work. We have every reason to hope this, for at least even Lampy has been led to moralize, weakly, it is true, and as "an infant crying for the light and with no language...
While we are mourning over the cruel fate which compels us to toil so unceasingly at this time of year, we often forget, or at least fail to appreciate, the efforts which most of our athletic men are continually making during the examinations. They are training quietly and patiently throughout these weary weeks that Harvard may win more athletic laurels next spring. The course of training which these men have to undergo severely taxes their pluck and perseverance. Probably at examination times when they are exhausting so much of their mental energy, the strain is greater than at the time...