Word: oftener
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...good work which the clubs can do does not stop here. In the West Harvard is misunderstood. An unsympathetic, and often prejudiced, press has done much to create an entirely false notion of Harvard men and of the college which they represent. The members of the clubs can do a great deal to dissipate this illusion, and to convince people that Harvard students are thoroughly manly, and their college the most liberal and progressive of American universities...
...valuable, consisting of a silver cup to each member of the victorious team. The field is to be set one hundred and twenty yards long by sixty wide, somewhat larger than usual to insure a good passing game and to prevent the ball from going out of play so often...
...matter of the pay of professors has been very often discussed by the trustees of the college, but it has never until lately been thought possible to put them all on an even basis, much less arrange the pay of all the instructors, tutors, etc., in the same way. A supposed or real unevenness of ability among those already employed and candidates for vacant positions, has been the cause of the trouble, and in many cases, where one man is paid $1,000 a year, another in the same grade has been paid $2, 000. To clear away this patchwork...
...from the strict rules and punishments of school, are apt to forget themselves in the greater liberties accorded here to students supposed to have passed the school-boy age. There are quietly dismissed from college every year many men, whose absence is never known without the college bounds and often seldom within them...
...former times it was possible to make a direct, vigorous complaint if things were not satisfactory, but now the duties of the officials are so strictly defined, that a man finds himself referred from one official to another until finally he often gives it all up in despair...