Word: ceaseless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last and shortest term of the college year begins to-day. The slow, uneventful winter term is over at last, and from now until July there will be ceaseless activity. The nine has already begun its practice games; the crews are on the river; the track is in good condition; the lacrosse team is on the field; the tennis courts are being laid out, and everything points to a very lively spring. The spring term is the pleasantest part of the year. There is always something to do or to see. The class races, the H. A. A. games...
...ever louder and yet more loud the alarming cry that the students do not read are not using the library, do not enter the Hall even, the great underlying evil, which is the aggressive centre of the disastrous situation remains untouched. We cannot hope for success say by untiring, ceaseless and unsparing agitation. The library at present offers no inducements whatever to the students at large. It is only by an effort, usually, that a student can manage to spend an hour within its walls, and while the libraries of other colleges remain invitingly open during the evening hours...
...With ceaseless sob on the sand...
...years ago it was not uncommon to hear a senior remark: "Indeed, I never thought of going into the library in my freshman year." Today the toiling freshman not infrequently sighs: "Why are we expected to read half of the books in the library?" From the ceaseless throng that come and go the library may properly be termed the university workshop...
Sharp grass; nor ever leaf stirr'd; ceaseless plied...