Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disputes, Yale came out the proud victor, and should have credit for her perseverance and success; but in the game itself, Princeton is the victor, and her victory is all the more glorious because it was won against real odds. Who can deny that the first are often last, and the last first...
...reading-room in the library as a place for discussion and conversation. There are two men in particular, - we could name them if we wished to, - who regularly disturb half the room every morning by their loud discussions on athletics and recitations. We have often remarked on the selfishness of such conduct which is all the more inexcusable as the reading-room is to many men the only place in college where they are able to secure anything like absolute quiet. To such men, noise and laughter in such a place are a great annoyance and a very serious...
...feel obliged to call the attention of those freshmen who take German to the noisy way in which many of them leave the recitation room. Freshman German sections in University are often dismissed five or ten minutes before the close of the hour, and these dismissals are attended by so much noise that students in the other recitation rooms are greatly disturbed. We have no doubt that the freshmen are merely thoughtless, and we hope that they will be more careful of the rights of others in the future...
...comment, other than the remarks that the reports published in the Boston press were dressed in most glaring colors and had but a thin thread of truth running through them. We must again make a distinction between the legitimate gathering of news, and the sensational writing which too often is made to appear as the account of actual occurrences...
...knowing how many more of these figureheads or financial agents may be required before the end of the year. The truth is that there is no better place for killing first class men than to make them presidents of one of the thousand small and struggling, and often not needed colleges that are scattered all over the century. Their Presidents are made responsible for great things, and are expected to create splendid results out of nothing. Dr. Duryea narrowly escaped this indiscribable position at Union College, and it is just this ??? of being hopelessly handicapped that sends these institutions...