Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...received less attention, enjoyed fewer privileges, or were regarded even with less respect than our older brothers. Conviction on that point was impossible. Fortunately that ever-present delusion of a blissful state never fades until seen through the eyes of a Sophomore or Junior. Harvard's youngest sons are seldom spoiled by indulgence, or handled with excessive care and tenderness...
...professor is sure of his calling, his fitness for teaching. Men seldom voluntarily make a life work of what is distasteful to them, and if forced into a pursuit incompatible with the natural tendencies of their minds, their labors in one unwelcome would never gain them professorships in our first places of learning...
...shall always welcome its appearance, and wish it all success, we very much doubt whether that success, as the Review claims, "will have accomplished a reform which is needed at other institutions of learning as well as our own." Experience has shown that long articles, however well written, are seldom read by the majority of students, and a college paper, to live, must be supported by every undergraduate. This fact, and the character of other college magazines convince us that one is not needed here, at least, and would not succeed if once started. We shall, therefore, watch the course...
...Norwich paper, in talking of the course on the Thames, says, that in the latter part of the afternoon there are seldom more than ripples of an inch high, and often it is perfectly calm; but what is meant by the words "ripples" and "seldom" and "often calm" it is hard to say, unless the writer himself has rowed there in a light boat...
...Club never sang better. The successes of the evening were Keler Bela's "On the Rhine" waltzes, the encore to which was the now well-known "Inman Line" march and Titt'l's "Serenade," in which the flute and cornet parts were rendered with an accuracy and delicacy too seldom found in amateurs...