Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...past few years has been college journalism. It is true that at times the English colleges have given birth to several excellent magazines such as the old Oxford Spectator and the present Oxford Magazine. These journals have always held their own in their particular line, and have been but seldom, if ever, surpassed in America. The best representative of this sort of college journal is the Yale Lit, an excellent paper in its way, and one that we believe is well supported, as it deserves to be. But the distinctive American college journal is of an entirely different character...
...observed that very seldom, if ever, are men who have had a college training found claiming that it has proved worthless or estimating its value in any way but the reverse of this. And if a list of facts is called for from those who hold that college breeding is worthless, or worse, out of which their uncomfortable belief has grown, it will be found that the facts are only such as have their foggy existence in want of knowledge and misconception. A small list, in proportion, of tramps, loafers, paupers, will be gathered from college alumni. Nor will...
...their class, some paltry distinction on graduating day. Pupils thus fail to perceive how utterly factitious and worthless these successes are a week after they will leave the school. The argument of the teacher is that the examination marks are a test of the pupil's proficiency. This is seldom correct. They are a test of his verbal memory and physical endurance. So wide is the range of study required now even in primary schools that nothing more can be done by the pupil than to commit the text-books to memory; to learn as it were the alphabet...
...seven thousand dollars more will be required to give us the grounds we need. The recent success of our athletics at the Polo grounds should induce every Harvard man, whether graduate or undergraduate, to do his best to provide suitable grounds for the association. It is but seldom that the Athletic Association calls for assistance, and this should be an additional reason for giving the assistance when it is needed. We hope that every one who has subscribed will pay his subscription as soon as possible, and that the committee will meet with no difficulty in getting enough additional subscriptions...
...more be seen. It is claimed, and with a good deal of truth, that the frequent uproarious scenes in and about the yard on the afternoon and evening of commencement day are mostly attributable to over-indulgence in the alluring spreads that are provided. The graduating class is seldom represented in these boisterous gatherings, its members being kept too busy with their exercises in the theatre to allow of recreative feasting. The outgoing class will join the alumni at dinner this year for the first time in the history of the institution, giving its members in effect a year...