Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...weaken," said the flower, with remarkable humility, manifesting his embarrassment and mortification. "But our garments have something in common," the Pride of the Summer Fields ventured to reply to the Glory of the College Yard...
...whether he can profitably elect courses which occasionally conflict. No matter how great the care taken in arranging the Tabular View, it often happens that two valuable courses have one hour a week, or, in the case of Fine Arts 2 and English 6, one hour a fortnight, in common. If the student, in laying out his college course, has planned to take these two electives in his Senior year, what is he to do? Is it not better to take them both, even with the inconvenience about recitation, than to give up either entirely? There are but few electives...
...same manner, and as those verses which we succeeded in scanning are also trochaic dimeters, we supposed, naturally enough, that the author had aimed at this throughout his poem; but here is the Courant talking of "this style of verse," as if it were something quite out of the common run, while the metre of the "Portrait" is most simple and familiar. We must, then, have mistaken the intention of the Lit.'s poet. Will the Courant kindly explain what the unusual metre is? The idea, however, of "A Counterfeit Presentment" is very pretty, and very well worked...
...angels. 1st Junior: "The Bible endorses the belief in angels; you know the prayer of one of the Apostles, 'Angels and ministers of grace defend us.' " Theological Student: "That is not in the Bible." 2d Junior: "Of course it is n't; it's in the book of Common Prayer, and that is no authority. Universal assent...
...night I was crossing Jarvis Field on my way home, when suddenly I saw before me a tall white figure. I stared in amazement, for the figure looked strangely familiar, and I recognized that it was no other than the soldier from the top of the monument on the Common. "Heavens," thought I, "he has heard of the Harvard Rifle corps, and has come to join it." I was about to tell him that he had mistaken the time, when he silently beckoned me to follow him, and stalked away with a gait that was rather unsteady, because...