Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...goes further and censures us for demanding an itemized account of such a figure as $693.48 for wages. We reserve the right to ourselves, and we think every man in the university may claim as much, to have an explanation for the sums disbursed for the crew. In this particular in stance, the explanation given shows that the janitor of the boat house is paid $60 a month for twelve months of the year. We have asserted that we believe that there is extravagance in the management of the boat club. Before we withdraw this assertion, we want...
Prof. F. J. Child has been elected president of "The American Folk-lore Society," which has for its object the study of folk-lore in general and in particular the collection and publication of the falk-lore of North America...
...life. During the first of his two years at the University of Michigan, Dr. Haven appears to have taught history to scientific students throughout their freshman course, devoting the first of the three terms to chronology and general history; the second to special history, embracing the leading epochs with particular attention to modern times; the third term was given to the philosophy of history. It was early recognized at Ann Arbor that the college curriculum through the modifying influence of the elective system, actually represented two kinds of training, collegiate and university, or gymnastic and scientific. While the early part...
...that the standing of history in the curriculum of Harvard College was very much improved for two centuries after these scholastic Foundations. It was not until the year 1839 that the first professorship in history was instituted. It was the first distinct endowment of that special branch in any particular college, and it led the way to the recognition of history as worthy of an independent chair in all our better institutions of learning. The first incumbent of the McLean Professorship of ancient and modern history, was Jared Sparks, A. M., who was at that time engaged upon the pioneer...
...reward for their game with '88 and not as championships. These cups are to be marked "Foot-Ball; '89, 10; '88, 4," and then at the opposite part of the cup the names of the members of the team. This seems to be the fairest way in this particular case, and also the best thing to be done to let it be understood in the future that no championship exists unless all teams play...