Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dead is that of Josiah Quincy, '21. The usual minute and scholarly list of accessions to the library follows, many interesting titles being included. History and geography, and law and sociology, are the departments that show the largest gains, a valuable collection of the library in Scottish containing numerous rare titles, being here carefully and minutely catalogued. A collection of the acts of the Scottish parliament dated 1566 is here included. Under "Literature" Dumas' complete works are entered, taking two full pages of the Bulletin. Volume I. of the Harvard Daily HERALD is also here entered. The classified index...
...writing of college songs seems to have become one of the lost arts. With every year the appearance of new songs that have any distinctive college stamp and flavor is becoming more rare. It is difficult to assign any satisfactory reason for this condition of affairs. It cannot be that taste and talent have seriously deteriorated. It is possible indeed that college students have become so much more critical and exacting in their demands in this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively...
...hope that the interest as well as the importance of the subject will attract a large audience to greet Prof. Lyon tonight. Any person who neglects this rare opportunity can not fail to regret it afterward...
...publication of annual reports by the president and treasurer of the college to the governing boards has been until very late years a custom peculiar to Harvard. Yale, on the contrary, was in the habit of issuing reports of this kind only at rare intervals of five years or more. There the college has been treated more as a close corporation than is the case at Harvard. This fact led to a lengthy discussion in the columns of various newspapers some time ago, in which the insignificant number of bequests that had been made of recent years to Yale...
...other papers. Among the items verses also are frequently found, capital hits, such as would form the literary matter of many another hungry journal. The Crimson, shall we say it, has deteriorated; it is not up to last year's mark, but good verses are by no means rare. It is a very noticeable fact, however, that with all the would-be poets in Harvard there are few who affect the French forms of verse so popular at Williams and less so at Columbia...