Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class races take place on the Charles River course. For months the four crews have been faithfully training for this event, and for months the college has watched with increasing interest the improvements which have taken place in the different crews. It is probably safe to say that seldom, in any class race, have the four crews been in better condition than they are at present. This is especially true of the three upper classes, who, from their longer experience in rowing, have a decided advantage over the freshman crew, which has, moreover, been weakened recently by the loss...
Three home runs in a single game is a record that has seldom been surpassed on Jarvis Field...
...line the walls, pipes lie here and there. A table rimmed with beer-stains, books, a few chairs, a bed, mugs of various sizes and fantastic devices-these constitute the principle bric-a-brac. The odor of stale tobacco prevades everything. Excepting as a mere resting-place the student seldom uses his room. HE is a Bohemian to the core. You may oftenest find him in a beer-shop, discussing obstruse, metaphysical problems through clouds of tobacco smoke, or at the kneipe of his dueling-corps, shouting glees over beer and pretzels until morning. Thence he steals away...
...seldom that we have cause to complain of the treatment of Harvard in the columns of the daily press, on any other score than that of being misunderstood. But in the case of one of the Boston dailies, the Herald, we feel that strong language is required. The attitude of the baseball editor of that paper on all subjects connected with Harvard, can be only characterized by the word contemptible. We do not know the reasons that actuate the distinguished journalist in question, but can only attribute them to some personal feeling. We feel sure that the management...
...regular in the performance of his college duties, being seldom absent from prayers or lectures. His work, however, was done as best suited his convenience, and he was ready at all times to cast books aside that he might chat with some friends, or go out into the surrounding country for a long stroll with a few of his chosen companions...