Word: rare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tournaments - so to speak - in boxing and fencing, occasionally held in private rooms, are good in that they promote a friendly rivalry, and afford chances for practice with many different men. The only thing to be regretted is that they are such rare occurrences...
...honor of college journalism be it said that an editor rarely has to notice the use of rowdyish and vituperative language between college journals. The cowardly and malicious use of calumnious language by an editor - such language as he would not dare to use except under the protection of anonymous writing - is extremely rare. When such a case is met with, we consider it our duty as a college journal to notice that which as a personal attack we should consider it unnecessary and undignified to answer. We therefore publish the following, taken from the College Spectator, a publication...
...previously acquired some knowledge of their manners, habits, and characters. In two of the (so-called) learned professions a young man fails at the outset oftener from his ignorance or inexperience of society than for want of ability or attainments; and it is by no means rare for a man to make a signal failure in one place, and to have an equally signal success in a second, in which he has profited by the experience of the first. A year or two in a school may save the teacher one remove, if not more, when he shall have become...
...plan of weekly or monthly papers to be read before the main society in London can be carried out; the number of living English writers on Shakspere is small, and men seek other ways of addressing the public when they wish to do so. But in the republication of rare books ("Allusion Books") in which reference is made to Shakspere, in issuing copies of the folios and quartos, in collating the texts and comparing them by parallel columns, there is a wide field for work. Already the Chaucer Society has accomplished a great deal in this way, and may well...
...poetical nature of the book is also to be noticed, which is a rare merit in a work of this nature. The divinus afflatus has rarely inspired a man to indite odes to his mother-in-law, and almost as rarely does the gentle muse of poetry venture over into the stern and barren fields of philosophy. It has been said that Locke only needed rhyme to become a poet. We submit respectfully to the author the propriety of turning his work into a metrical form. To revel in a lyric on the "Complex Modes of Extension or Duration...