Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Messrs. Cunningham and Heath, Pearl Street, have a splendid assortment of the most improved English bicycles, and they offer rare chances of learning to ride the vehicle in a large room used for that purpose only. Their room is a capital place of exercise also for those who think of entering into the bicycling club or races...
...other and holds it till after examination. If we are informed rightly, there is but one copy of Luden's, one of Giesebrecht's History of Germany, one of Stith's Virginia, one of Brodhead's New York, one of Ewald's "Our Constitution," etc., etc., - books either too rare or expensive for a poor man to think of buying, but for which he has great need at certain times in the year...
Many of us are familiar with attempts in private conversation to justify reluctance to express disapprobation at indecencies however great, but such attempts in print are rare. That there should be at college a live and healthy public opinion cannot be doubted, at least until those who defend non-expression of disapproval show good reasons for so doing...
...marshy ground in the Campus at Brown having been filled in, a botanist in the Brunonian deplores the disappearance of the Viburnum lentago, Chelone glabra, and Ilex verticillata; we are happy to hear, however, that the Campus still boasts the possession of many rare and beautiful flowers, whose names fill up about a column in the Brunonian; among the prettiest of these names are Polygonum orientale, Campanula rapunculoides, and Alopecurus pratensis. It would be equally inelegant, impolite, and unnecessary to advise the Brunonians to "go to grass...
...sail to-morrow. If I survive the dangers of the deep, I will drop you another line from some South American port, and tell you how I thrive under the "influence of rare culture...