Word: seldom
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...constructed in loose iambic which give a flow and freedom to the translation and makes us feel that Homer is in fact as well as in reputation a bard. The order of the original is followed very closely, and this method of translation gives a certain quaintness that is seldom met with in other translations of Homer. Although the rhythmical rendering prevents an absolutely literal translations, the work compares very favorably in this respect with Butcher and Lang who aim at literalness...
...Moffat of last year's Princeton team has used it much, but we hope our backs will try to learn it, as none of them have so far been able to make a very long, high punt. Some of the players "run back" now and then. This is very seldom anything but loss. Every man ought to drill himself into the habit of never running back a foot. If there is no one back of you to pass the ball to, say down ; if there is, pass it at once. He can run to better advantage than...
...loose both the race with Yale and the base-ball championship seemed very hard, especially as we left college feeling reasonable sure of the latter. Our rivals at Yale have received a success such as they seldom achieve, and of which they are deservedly proud...
...modern, and altogether ignoring the sound of a language. In fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely made up of grammar and "trot" and that did not teach a man to distinguish the subtle differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ which seldom errs) but by complex rules, committed to memory with much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries ago, it was an ordinary circumstance to carry on a conversation in Latin, and the control which an average student had over the language was astonishing. When, for example...
...seldom that one can compare any of the small or even moderate sized colleges with the larger universities, and it is even more rare to find in such institutions some qualities which their larger rivals lack. Still, that a small college possesses some advantages that great universities have not, nor from present appearances ever will have, cannot be doubted by the skeptical. One of the most important of these advantages and one that will seriously influence hereafter many who wish a college education in its full sense is the good fellowship in the various classes. If as may occur...