Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lincoln. A series of reproductions of medals in honor of the kings of France is interesting. They extend from the siege of Pharamond 430 A. D. down to Napoleon II, who died in 1832. Besides those we have mentioned there are a great many series of medals both curious and interesting. The collection numbers in all some 350 or 450 medals, forming a remarkable running history of the first half of the nineteenth century...
...which Harvard has carried out its purpose we confess to a good deal of disappointment. The list of required books in this department and the subjects selected for examination papers indicate a peculiar narrowness of view on the part of those who have made the selections and a curious tendency to run in ruts...
...publish in another place a clipping taken from an editorial on "English at Harvard" in the New York Commercial Advertiser. The writer complains that the requirements for admission in English "indicate a peculiar narrowness of view on the part of those who made the selections and a curious tendency to run in ruts." This is clearly the opinion of a man who blindly judges from the Exeter or alone. Every English author could not be represented in the requirements for obvious reasons. And it has seemed best to "those who made the selections" to choose authors who are more...
...Next Friday evening the Harvard Glee Club will give a concert in Memorial Hall, Cambridge, assisted by Baldwin's Band. A hope will follow the concert." The above collection of curious misstatements is taken from the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette...
...seems that one feature of our college life should be broken up, if possible, and that is the snobbery which prevails in every class between the first term of the sophomore year and the junior year. It is apparent that snobbery almost entirely disappears among the seniors. A curious fact in the psychological history of every class is the way the strong class feeling which exists among the freshmen disappears for a time and reappears with redoubled strength in the senior year...