Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exceptions: No student shall represent his college for more than four years; no student who has ever been registered as a member of any other college or university shall be eligible until he has been in attendance as a registered student for three full consecutive terms; no special or partial course student shall be eligible until he has been in attendance as a registered student for three full consecutive terms; no special whomsoever shall be eligible unless he is taking at least twelve hours per week prescribed study; a special or partial student is defined...
...best, of Shakespeare's works. The plot is so unreasonable, and one of the characters (Proteus by name) so preposterous, that it is easy to understand the infrequent representations of the piece. The reason for its being seldom given, however, lies more perhaps in the fact that, with the partial exception of Launce, who belongs of course to the low comedian, there is no first-rate character for any one player. Whatever the reason, it is certain that the first valid record of any performance of "The Two Gentlemen" comes so late as the year 1762. The first American rendering...
...Watson is not here to pick a crew from fellows of his immediate acquaintance or to be partial in the slightest degree; the idea is simply absurd. He is here to teach us to row, a position for which his thorough knowledge of the science adapts him; he is here to pull us out of the hole into which we have fallen and to establish a system which shall win, as it must, a full share of victories in the future...
...weakness in any of them is likely to result in extinction. In the more highly evolved species there is a greater number of faculties and consequently a greater variety of opportunities for the superiority of one individual over another. Therefore when we get to man we find a partial suspension of the law of natural selection, because if one man is superior in a certain respect to his fellows, so they in various other respects may be superior...
...should like to ask the University authorities, through your columns, the following questions: Since Thursday was not even a partial holiday in the University, why was the gymnasium closed in the evening, and why was the Office closed during its regular hours...