Word: uncommonly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...music and of the increasing popularity which college songs are finding with the public. Harvard songs have always been more or less popular, and especially of late they have been very favorably received by outsiders. Publishers are anxious to print new songs, and today it is not at all uncommon to hear Harvard music played in places outside the college...
...Common Marriage" is a thoughtful character study and story of that not uncommon species of man who fancies himself in love with a pretty woman because he takes pleasure in the faint evasive perfume of her hair, in being on the same divan with her, in leaning against the same cushions, and in watching her quick breathing,-who goes a step farther and becomes engaged to her, recognizing his mistake, yet incapable of sufficient will-power and courage to make a clean breast of it and effectually to relieve the entanglement,-who takes the final step and becomes her husband...
...unusual number of men who could afford to go elsewhere are boarding at Memorial; and 75 names are still on the waiting list, while in previous years there has never been any waiting list at all after the first of March. These facts point to a year of uncommon progress: and what is the inference? I understand that Mr. Darling is exceedingly unwilling to be re-nominated. But in so serious a matter as this, the college has a right to the services of the men who can serve her best, and Mr. Darling has one qualification which no other...
...social life of students in European universities is pleasant on the whole and but little remains of upper class tyranny. In British universities fagging has almost disapeared. Secret societies are rare. Social clubs are not uncommon but are too often only so in name. In Sweden they have reached perhaps their best development...