Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scented rose fell from this ethereal region. This sacred region is the object of no little worship. I remember once watching the men as they filed into the hall, and I can safely say that I saw nine out of every ten who entered, look up to the gallery, often even before they were seated at table, and without fail afterwards. Then next there is the basement, which some have even dared to call the other place. Of this wonderful place, we have memories both pleasant and not pleasant. Who has ever penetrated the dark recesses? Only a few bold...
...realms of this much loved King a band of youths who, from their number, were called the nine. And from these, it is said, in after ages came the nine muses. Now the nine found great favor in the eyes of all the people and their concerts, which were often called balls, were widely attended. Rich and poor, high and low, gathered upon the fields on warm sunny afternoons after four o'clock, (for at this hour the shops were closed by the order of the much loved King), and watched the nine disporting upon the turf, which, because...
...subsequent paragraph of the same article Mr. Thwing says, "The intellectual results of four years spent in Harvard College may be made, and often are made, at least as valuable as those of any four years spent in any institution, I do not hesitate to say, in the world" Mr. Thwing is a Harvard graduate, and has written much on his Alma Mater. He has never hesitated to condemn her where she needed condemning, or to praise her where she has deserved praise, and it is just this openness and freedom that gives weight to what he writes...
That the dress of students be neat and decent is highly proper, but that it should be very ornamental and expensive is ever needless, and often times pernicious; nor will any student who is solicitous to acquire knowledge, and sincerely disposed to improve his time to the best advantage in obtaining such degrees of it as may enable him to be extensively useful to the community, feel a reluctance to economical institutions respecting dress. He will not only esteem the ornaments of mind of vastly higher importance than those of the body, but the general good will also constantly influence...
...article headed "College Diet, a table boarder's notes on Memorial Hall," appeared in last evening's Record. One is forcibly reminded, while reading some portions, that fiction is often stranger than truth...