Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Several courses are there given which would be of great benefit to all who may attend them; for example, those on "Torts" and "Criminal Law and Procedure." At present some twenty men from the college are attending these lectures, and they find them interesting as well as instructive. It often happens that a man will submit to much more abuse from another than his inclination would allow were he not in ignorance of how far the law will permit him to go in redressing his wrongs...
...idea is, of course, an excellent one and has often been pleaded for, and sometimes with skill and enthusiasm, and by men eminently qualified to speak of the subject; as by President White, of Cornell, before the National Educational Association in 1874. But the plan, I fear, will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive...
Again we must emphasize the complaint, so often made, that men using the library, and especially those who draw books, are guilty of the grossest carelessness. And word has recently come to us from Mr. Winsor, the librarian, which seems to imply that this carelessness, presumably by processes of evolution, is passing into something of a far worse nature. For the sake of euphemism, however, and that we may not run the risk of making any great mistakes, we will still continue to call this failure to return books to the library "carelessness," and permit those who may read this...
There is great complaint that the captains of the various crews are not as considerate of each other as might be; the rowing room is often occupied longer than is at all necessary, and other crews kept in waiting...
...Harvard Lampoon loses none of its originality. As is often the case, its illustrations are superior to its literature. Particularly good is the representation of a Harvard student of 1900 sitting calmly unmoved and coldly indifferent while a Memorial Hall waiter is pouring soup down the back of his lordship. - Brunonian...