Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Allow me to protest through your columns against the unscrupulousness of some men who have the pretention of giving seminars and private instruction in branches which they know little about. Their principal victims are, of course, freshmen; and one case in particular has come to my notice of a graduate giving seminars in subjects which he was utterly unfit to teach. Now, such a man may think he is a very able fellow to be earning money in such ways, but to any candid mind he is a swindler. I speak of this simply to warn freshmen...
...work at all since entering college. He played first base on his school team in Troy, New York, and was considered a good man. He is tall and limber and has long arms, three valuable requisites for a baseman, but is slow and will have to improve in this particular in order to make a successful player. Calhoun, '90, occupied the position of short-stop on the freshman nine last year and played it well. He is light and quick and a fair batter but not likely to take "Puss" Noyes place on the 'Varsity nine...
...examination period has begun once more, and, in offering the compliments of the person to our readers, we take occasion to remind them that even if they have concluded their work for any particular day there is a chance that the other men in the building have not, and that noisy embullitions of joy are not a source of equal pleasure to their neighbors and to themselves...
...great stress upon athletic contests. Much as we deem the writer of the article egregiously ignorant about our affairs, there can be no doubt that Harvard is not exempt from the evils which always beset a large body of society-composed entirely of men, but that is no particular fault of ours. What can be laid at our door is a certain triviality in dealing with affairs, and a provinciality in regard to the outside world, but great as has been the misfortune occasioned by such ignorance, it is not true that no improvement is visible. No one who entered...
...tour of the Glee and Banjo clubs which was terminated Saturday by their arrival in New Haven, was one of the most successful in the history of the two organizations. It was rendered so in particular by the extension of the vacation granted to the members of the clubs by the faculty who, without doubt, appreciate the increased enthusiasm for Yale which the trips of the clubs in past years have called forth...