Word: rare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arrival from abroad, a valuable collection of books which he had gathered while in Europe in the past eight years. This collection embraced 688 volumes. They are mostly Spanish works, some are Italian, and a few are English. While many of these volumes are very valuable and rare, there is one work that may justly be deemed a prize above all others. This is the Chronicle of Fernando Lopez, in three volumes printed in 1644. Mr. Lowell purchased it at the Sunderland sale in 1882. On the fly leaf of the first volume Mr. Lowell has transcribed the following quotation...
...acting itself can naturally not be spoken of from a professional point of view; that even the most gifted amateur can learn much from the worst and stupidest professional is a truth which no one can gainsay. Yet it was a rare comfort last evening to find that every member of the large cast really knew what he was talking about. This is a feeling that one does not often experience in the face of the professional stage. Everything that was done was governed by evident intelligence; the gestures, if not always graceful and forcible, were generally appropriate...
...party of about 25 students went to College Hill yesterday to see the game against the Tufts College nine. The game opened with Harvard at the bat, and dragged along for nine full innings, its monotony only relieved by some error of unusual atrocity, or by a rare good play, such as the trick by which Allen caught Westcott napping at first in the seventh innings, and the double play by Tufts in the sixth. Litchfield and Tilden changed places in the third inning. The best batting was done by Wiestling, Crosby and Chapman...
There seems to have been a tendency to avoid "live" subjects for discussion. In spite of the strong political feeling at the time, questions connected with politics are rare. Once the question "Is the motto 'To the victors belong the spoils' a good one for a political party," was debated and decided in the negative. Only three questions relating to slavery were chosen for debate, and the debate on one of them was in definitely postponed on the evening appointed for it. The question "Are negroes an inferior race of beings?" was twice discussed, and each time was decided...
...high a price upon its season tickets. On examination of the present schedule of games, we find that a season ticket costs no less, or at least very little less than single fees paid at each game would cost; so that all the advantage of season tickets is lost. Rare is the man who cares to lay out $5.00 at one time for a season ticket, when even supposing he attends all the games, he knows it will cost him no more to pay for each game at the gate. The chances are, on the contrary, that a season ticket...