Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Columbia has lost Meyer, who was probably next to Southard in playing ability. Falk is very conservative, and seldom makes more than a draw against a good player. Sewall is hardly as good as Boehm, who is unable to play on account of illness. Both the Yale and the Princeton teams are better than they were last year. Weston and Ely, last year's players, were beaten in the fall tournament by Henley and Hunt, the present team...
Undergraduate management of debating teams is almost impossible because, in the first place, nearly every team has on it one or more law or divinity school men, since it takes that long to develop 'varsity debaters, and in the second place there can seldom be found among the undergraduates a man able to maintain the control necessary to produce harmony under his coaching...
After the first defeat at Princeton it was expected that the men would brace up and play good ball, but a Harvard team has seldom shown poorer form in a big game than the nine last Saturday. Not only was the batting and fielding weak, but the men were listless and on several occasions showed the poorest kind of judgment in the handling of hits and in backing up the bases...
...cavalry officer during the war, took up first the desirability of the different branches of army service. He recommended the light artillery as being perhaps the most inspiring and attractive. The exeriece of the cavalry in the Civil War proved the fallacy of the statement that the cavalry man seldom meets death on the field. In one battle the First Massachusetts Cavalry lost 186 men and officers out of a total of 300, and the experience of other cavalry troops was similar. Dr. Bowditch closed his lecture with a graphic account of army life. His troop seldom suffered from hunger...
...outside, perfect harmony within the Faculty. Secondly it is their opinion that although the moral effect of the possibility of such a punishment as possing has thus far justified its adoption, it is so extreme a punishment that in future the tendency might be to resort to it so seldom that much of its moral effectiveness might be lost. Finally, nearly all agree that the new method promises well...