Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...These hints are not authoritative, and have no reference to the particular form the examination may take...
...average intelligence can believe that a committee of such men as the students would elect could be made to do "police duty," even if the faculty so desired. And he must have a poor opinion indeed of human nature in general and of the faculty of Harvard College in particular, who can believe that they desire such a thing...
...connection with the appearance of the new elective pamphlet, we would like to say a word to coming sophomores in particular, but a word to all as well in regard to the English department. The this year's freshmen have now about finished the prescribed work in English of the first year, and are looking forward to their electives. No college in the United States offers so many advantages in this department as Harvard does. In the first place, there are seven different courses for the study of the literature alone, covering periods in the English world of letters from...
...choice of electives. The same principle is at work in both cases. We find ourselves placed before a distracting labyrinth of knowledge, and the command given us, "Choose!" Some of us want to take so many different courses that we cannot easily condense our desires. Others, without any particular wish for any knowledge, fail to see which courses out of the multitude they ought to select. What is there to guide us? Who shall say what departments of knowledge are more important than what others? The only important thing is that we pursue well those branches of it which...
...that on its own merits invites attendance. The college has many ways of keeping college spirit alive; the class has fewer, and certainly among these few, there is not one that answers its purpose so well as the dinner. Therefore, however much we may be engrossed with our own particular set, let us not forget that we of a class are together filled with like hopes and aspirations. Ought this not to create feeling of inter-class friendship...