Word: rarely
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...devoted the hour to exhibiting and explaining many interesting relics of the inhabitants of Babylonia and Assyria who lived somewhere between the years 1400 and 2000 B. C. Many of the specimens which Professor Lyon exhibited have arrived from London since his last lecture, and they are especially rare as showing the nature and customs of a prehistoric people. Rev. Dr. Ward of America and M. Mamont, have done much to collect seals and vases which contain the various modes of expression adopted by the early Babylonians, and a greater part of what we now have, especially in the form...
...journals and letters to various people. The work appeared in two volumes, the original manuscripts from which Goethe made up the first volume have just been published, and it is seen that he cut out the personal elements in preparing the work for the public. Goethe made a rare use of his eyes in travelling-not that he saw everything, but it is wonderful what an amount he did see. It is interesting, too, to note how the desire to inquire into the causes of things, and how the love of science had grown upon him, when he wrote...
...present the officers of this college are agitating the question of reform, I have thought that this communication may not be out of place. I wish to point out what seems to be a defect in oral examinations in this college. That examinations of this kind are here very rare must be admitted, but even so all cause for complaint either on the part of the professor or the student should be avoided so far as it is possible...
...tastes of young men who graduate, as the low esteem in which they hold the professor-that is, the small importance they attach to their opinions about everything relating to the conduct of life-everything, in short, outside the special subject which the professor teaches. It is a rare thing to find a graduate of one of our leading colleges who has brought away any respect for the faculty in any character but that of men of learning. As men of the world, or as social or moral philosophers, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that he contemns them...
...been the custom for several years past for Professor Norton to entertain on Christmas eve those of us who are obliged for one reason or another to remain in Cambridge during the recess. It is needless to say that all who can have hitherto availed themselves of this rare treat. There are too few opportunities for personal intercourse between scholar and preceptor in the course of our studies for any one to neglect such an opportunity. The pity is that such chances are so rare. The size and unwieldiness of this institution of learning is such as to prevent...