Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remain in Cambridge during the recess may be seated with friends or at particular tables in the hall, by leaving their names with the auditor...
...granting that the two systems are equally good so far as quality goes, the spirit of instruction must be taken into account. The discipline and instruction of sectarian schools is likely to develop men prejudiced in favor of particular church dogmas and creeds. Said a seminarian, who had always attended the schools of his church, in discussing evolution with a gentleman who seemed open to the doctrine, "What, do you want it proved true?" Too often the life of the teachers in parochial schools is so wrapped up in their profession that the education they impart fits...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Gentlemen: Permit me through your columns, to voice a widespread feeling of dissatisfaction which exists among members of the Dining Association. The particular grievance giving rise to this feeling is one which all must have noticed, - the annoying delay in getting breakfast after Chapel...
...their members - and whether the faculty marched themselves or were personified by the students, I really have forgotten. We have here in Harvard the men, plenty of music, and from last year, the experience for a big procession. Each society and organization would bend its energies to its own particular section and the whole would with a little guidance, take care of itself. A peculiarly Harvard procession, as such a one would be, would create a widespread interest, and would certainly furnish X. Y. Z. "something he could look back upon with pride and pleasure...
...have been informed by the instructor in question why the practice was discontinued, and that the reasons are perfectly satisfactory both from the standpoint of convenience upon which our correspondent laid great stress, and also from the more scholarly standpoint of improvement in sophomore theme work. In the first particular the machinery involved was too cumbersome, and was ill-fitted to accomplish the purpose for which it was employed, - to provoke good critical work carefully done. In the second particular the practice is one which distinctly does not tend to improve the student's style. Improvement of style...