Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact that the crew changed from the '87 boat into the new '85 shell. Since then the crew has braced up and improvement has been steady. The bad fault of rushing the slide in coming forward has been to a great extent over-come; but more improvement in this particular is necessary. The slump at the finish has been partly overcome, though some of the men, especially 3, need to pay strict attention to this point. The time is still poor, and the crew as a whole rows short. The men (except bow and stroke) still swing back...
...Hopkins or Harvard, has the power of conferring these degrees. To the outside world, that received from one is as good as the from the other, and so both are regarded as worthless. They are given in accordance with no general plan and for no special proficiency in any particular branch, but each year an army of Doctors of Divinity, Doctors of Law, etc., is turned loose upon an unsuspecting community that had, up to that time, lived in blissful iignorance of the latent talent wasting in its midst, and destined to be lost forever to the world...
...fairly be assumed that whenever a member of the faculty votes for restrictive measures, it is because he doubts whether in that particular case the students are able to regulate the matter themselves. In the present instance the doubt has never been as to the propriety of celebrating victories-the more victories, and the more celebrations of them, the better, is, I feel sure, the sentiment of every man in the faculty, but as to certain features of the celebrations, the loud explosions which make the college a formidable nuisance to the neighborhood by keeping people awake and imperilling such...
...also voted to concur with the president and fellows in the following statute: Persons who are not candidates for a degree may be admitted to any of the courses of instruction in the university, provided that they satisfy the appropriate faculty of their fitness to pursue the particular courses which they elect. The several faculties have the right to deprive any such student of his privileges if he abuse them or fail to use them. It was also resolved that the privileges extended to special students being readily subject to abuse the overseers recommend that these privileges be very sparingly...
...though well qualified from a scientific point of view, will not be likely to desire membership, unless they see the society is an earnest and interested body of workers, reaping decided advantages from the opportunities for co-operation and mutual benefit which such a society should afford in its particular department. During the year just passed, we have endeavored to take the first steps toward placing the society in this ideal position. May the future show that our labers for this end have not been quite in vain...