Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these your highest dreams of life?" he asked. "Listen, my friend," he continued. "He who dwells here is one of a class of men who regard themselves as forming the highest society in the land. But this man cares more for that old Aldine or that rare Plotinus yonder, than he cares for the outside world or for his own soul. The world is centered in his library. A few intimates there are to whom he lays bare his feelings, and of most authors he is desirous of winning the respect; but the great mass of men, 'the unknown public...
...been restricted to a microscopic, hypercritical examination of the "Vanity of Human Wishes." When it is remembered that the course meets but once a week, the expenditure of valuable time can be realized. English VII. is essentially, and, to be successful, must necessarily be made a lecture course. Its rare meeting, the vast amount of work to be accomplished in it, and the great size of the section demand this. When three weeks are given to one short poem of Johnson in a course which both in recitation and examination neglects the works of Addison through a lack of time...
...Lasalla Club of Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, is to give an entertainment Thursday evening of this week. It is reported that quite a large delegation from Harvard will embrace this rare opportunity, getting an interior view of this generally well known, but, to us mysterious institution...
...that eighty-six has voted to hold another dinner, it is to be hoped that the project may be carried out successfully. Eighty-five made the attempt without success, and, we are constrained to believe, made a grave mistake in losing so rare an opportunity for an evening of social enjoyment. Class feeling is slowly dying out at Harvard, a result attributable to many causes, and class dinners are among the few things left that can momentarily rekindle the smoldering embers of the old-time enthusiasm. We shall be greatly surprised if there is any difficulty in securing fifty names...
...knowledge; but it would seem that the right to such argument belongs only to such men as are able sincerely to deceive themselves with a belief that they know as much, or nearly as much, or even more, that they are ignorant of. Such men are really very rare; but if we suppose that they do exist, and further suppose that their deception is so small that it is for all practical purposes zero, then and only then, can we say that they might on as fair and as equal terms cope with an examination designed to test their knowledge...