Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...aside from the particular purpose of this inquiry, there is suggested, as a more general theme, the anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities. What has shown itself else where in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation, has moved the students at Johns Hopkins to change their debating society into a "Students' House of Commons." Surely this gives evidence that Anglomania has gone quite far enough. The "it's English, yer knaw" is a very bad principle to have established in any degree among American students, and the slightest tendencies towards this fearful Anglomania should be nipped at once. Such...
...Theta Delta Chi has taken a policy exactly opposite to that of last year, for it announces only the members of the Society instead of only the officers. The societies for study and investigation in general, show marked progress by their increased list of membership. The Dining Association in particular, which may be regarded as an investigating society sui generis, has increased in numbers. The 740 of last year has become 753, the maximum number that the Dining Hall will accommodate...
This year's Index may well claim superiority over numbers of previous years in at least one particular. The "Directory of rooms in the college yard." pp. 172-180, cannot but be of value to the college at large. Certainly the "subscription fiend" will glory in it, and although his glory may be others' sorrow, still a really valuable feature of the Index should not be condemned for any such slight disadvantage. It is, however, a matter of regret that this directory was not made to include the more important buildings out of the yard, such as Holyoke, College House...
...sorry to have to call attention once more to the conduct of men who use the reading-room in the library as a place for discussion and conversation. There are two men in particular, - we could name them if we wished to, - who regularly disturb half the room every morning by their loud discussions on athletics and recitations. We have often remarked on the selfishness of such conduct which is all the more inexcusable as the reading-room is to many men the only place in college where they are able to secure anything like absolute quiet. To such...
...must not give too much importance to the communication which we publish this morning on "Foot-ball and Profanity." That the communication is just in its charges cannot be denied by any one who was present at the recent game on Jarvis Field, but that our outside readers in particular are all too likely and ready to assign to it far too much significance in regard to the tone and character of our foot-ball team, is quite as undeniable. The evil, we have to confess, does, does exist in a noticeable degree, and being interested in the reputation...