Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pillsbury of the Boston Chess Club will give an exhibition of blindfold chess tonight at the rooms of the Harvard Chess Club, 25 Roberts Block, Brattle Street. Mr. Pillsbury will play six games at once, all blindfold, a feat seldom attempted by any player. His opponents will be MacKaye Sp., Wilson '94, Ballou '93, Van Kleek '95, Goldmark '94, and Hewins '96, Play begins at 7.30. All members of the University interested in chess are cordially invited...
...then temptations find him an easy prey. There is also a scorn of ungodliness. There are men who sneer at the evils of their time, who vent their sarcasm on the wrong which they see about them and this may be all well enough in itself, but these men seldom actually do any good themselves and their sneering may do infinite harm. Then again we find a scorn of the unfamiliar, a scorn of educated for uneducated, of business man for scholar, of religious man for non - religious...
...doubtful if a Harvard team ever received more ungentlemanly treatment than that accorded the junior eleven at Fall River on Saturday. The Harvard team repeatedly had to submit to the most unjust decisions, while Fall River men were seldom or never made to pay the forfeits of unfair playing, though several of them were repeatedly warned that they were either holding or playing off-side. Ninety-four played rather loosely and with poor interference, which was not surprising considering the crippled condition of the men. In the latter half, the work was much better. Brooks made a touchdown but missed...
...line men blocked beautifully, and, with the exception of a short while in the second half, the ball was very seldom in the home team's territory...
...seldom that one has the pleasure of reviewing at once as attractive and interesting a publication as the initial number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. The printing is done by the Riverside Press and that is a sufficient guarantee of its typographical beauty. The cover is very neatly decorated with a picture of the gate and the frontespiece is a portrait of Henry J. Bowditch. The officers of the magazine are men of excellent position and their names alone are enough to recommend the paper. A stock company - the Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association - are the publishers and William Roscoe Thayer...