Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea is to collect into one place full information upon each of the important topics of present history. The trouble with our careless, intermittent newspaper reading, is that we get but an imperfect, hazy, often incorrect knowledge of passing events. The purpose of the proposed plan is expressed in the phrase-to present a compendious summary of contemporaneous history...
...faculty?" It is needless to say that it would be an awful descent. But, then, some mountains will be steep; and men who are foolish enough to climb them, must come down sooner or later. The descent may be even rapid and ungraceful, but still it is often politic...
...bashfulness still exists among our freshmen,-that they shrink from making any athletic efforts in public. Or, perhaps, many are deterred from competing at the games through consciousness of their inability to carry away the prizes. The senselessness of both these courses of reluctance to compete has been too often pointed out, to need further comment...
...made his preparation for work he chats with his fellows till the professor comes. The professor is always greeted by applause, or by a rising in the seats. He comes in on a walk that borders on a run; begins to talk almost before he reaches his box, and often before he has taken off his coat or his gloves. The manner of lecturing is as varied as the individuality of the lecturer. A few sit quietly and read written lectures, some speak with few notes, and some with no notes at all. Few make any attempt at oratorical effect...
...portions of the building during the hours of exercise. Not only are such persons, even if perfectly innocent, in the way, but in case they are bent on evil purposes, the chances of success are too great in a large building like the Hemmenway Gymnasium. Sneak thieves have too often plied their trade there, and all efforts by the authorities to rid the building of unknown persons will meet with the hearty approval of the students...