Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thus? Is it not somehow in the power of editors and compilers of the pamphlets to regulate the market prices, if in no other way, at least by giving the pamphlets for publication to those who will gladly undersell and outwit a Cambridge dealer whose great trouble is chronic high prices...
...sight of the above notice encourages us to again broach the subject. There are always large numbers of men here who intend to enter journalism, and their work would be vastly helped, and their success made far more probable, if some attention were given to them. The chronic poverty of the college seems to put out of the question any hope of the establishment of a regular course for this purpose. But we can see no reason why some journalist of recognized ability and experience should not be asked to give the students here a series of lectures that should...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - The chronic difficulties under which the majority of our athletic organizations seem to be struggling, has no doubt, often suggested to our readers the advisability of some change in the present methods of administration. While the ball nine from its large gate receipts. usually has a surplus at the end of the season, the crew, owing to its dependence upon subscriptions alone, is in arrears...
...directly affected, their desires ought to have a good deal of weight in determining the result. To ignore them and to aim for a higher moral standard regardless of consequences would be to get rid of one evil, and at the same time to invite a worse one-chronic discontent among the young men. If anything further is done in the matter would it not be the part of wisdom and prudence to restrict the movement to an attempt to rescue football from the category of exhibitions of brutality? This "sport" seems to us to be most in need...
...thing. Not a true college or a noble culture, mind you. But it has become an axiom among philosophers that the finer a thing is the more vile is its corruption. So then if culture be but a carping and inactive criticism, in the nature of a chronic and irremediable disease that sees the world only through jaundiced eyes, and if a college produce this culture, it is unutterably a bad thing that you should found such a college and possess such a culture. If your college is to sap the vitality of men, to wither their brains by spring...