Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last number of the Exonian contains some very peppery remarks about the freshman game in particular and Harvard in general, which seem to have been caused by over excitement...
...sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever-mud-adorned stretch of path from Weld to the library. We will not claim that we have here a right to use the rather sweeping term, "Scylla and Charybdis," but that does not alter the fact that a wet day causes this particular piece of walk to resemble closely the famous bog in which the victim sank deeper the more he struggled. If the college could furnish to the passer bathing suits, or even a raft, the trouble would be obviated, but as it is we can only cry to the Lares...
...education in this particular case is supposed to be taken from the value of specialism from the very fact of the course being prescribed, and to be transferred to the ground of thorough and symmetrical culture, it seems worth while to glance at the facts and see if the desired result is likely to follow...
Finally, one can hardly engage for a certain length of time, in a particular kind of work without becoming identified with it, and the logical result of the system will show itself at some future day. Instead of builders in literature, we shall have a class of men whose only ability lies in tearing down, instead of our being able to appreciate an artistic piece of work as a whole, our knowledge must come from a view of it lying dismembered before us like the wreck of some noble ship cast upon a barren shore...
...misstatement in our columns by which the number of students in the academical department of the university was represented as being three less than the number enrolled in the catalogue of last year, must be at once corrected. The university is growing. This year in particular, far from showing any diminution in the number of students, exhibits an encouraging increase of almost sixty. Yet in spite of this correction of the mistake made yesterday, we look forward with cheerful expectancy to the mails which shall bring to us the next week's numbers of our widely scattered and highly esteemed...