Word: rare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scarcely more than half a dozen instances, all told, have I seen Harvard men fail of courtesy to other passengers. Many men are coming to be indifferent to the claims of women to any other treatment than they themselves receive in the cars, but it is a very rare experience for me to see a lady, whether young or old, plain or pretty, enter a car when students are passengers, and be compelled to stand.- Cambridge Tribune...
...very rare occurrence in Germany that parents send their sons to the universities unless they intend to have them study for a regular profession. One should imagine that this custom would lead the young fellows to bend to the task of laying a foundation for the task of laying a foundation for their career with increased earnestness. But nothing of the kind really occurs. On the contrary a strong reaction sets in from the grinding discipline of twelve years of schooling and one year of military service. This generally comes between leaving school and going to the University. The young...
...student in the Worcester Tech, some two years ago, who was so injured by the terrible strain of a tug-of-war that for months after he did not leave his bed. His whole life long he will suffer from his injuries. Similar cases are not so very rare. The danger is recognized by our rowing men, as witness the fact that no crew man is allowed to anchor...
...with whom they come in contact by an unfortunate lack of manners or by a hampering poverty, and then are frozen up into themselves by the snobbery which they encounter, and lose all the sweetness of college life in the solitude of their rooms. Exactly such cases are comparatively rare, I know, because generally there will be some one to make friends with them. But why should we allow a state of things to exist at all, which infuses bitterness into the lives of many of our fellow-students? It need take no great sacrifice on our part...
...third number of the new illustrated monthly magazine called the Curio is just out and is even more interesting than its predecessors. It is published in New York, London and Paris, and is devoted to genealogy, heraldry. coins, autographs, rare books, works of art, and other colonial relics...