Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Julius Caesar will be given by the club in Sanders Theatre on the evenings of May 25 and 26. The speaking parts will be taken by members of the club, and a large number of students will assist in the great scenes as Roman senators, citizens, soldiers, etc. Particular attention will be given to historical accuracy in the action of the play, and in the reproduction of the costumes of the time. The only changes made on the stage will be by properties...
...orchestra composed, as the Pierian is, entirely of amateurs. The Glee Club also showed the improvement of a winter's work. The programme last evening was very well adapted to bring out the excellent points of both organizations. The Spanish dance by Moskowski, and the Haydn Serenade in particular were both excellently well played with swing and dash, and withal a precision and delicacy that did the orchestra great credit. A quartette for 'cellos, by Messrs. Forcheimer, Cabot, Loeb and Naumberg, was a very novel and enjoyable feature, and was artistically and smoothly played...
...college in the United States has a more liberal tendency regarding religion than our own. Harvard does less at the present day to thrust any particular belief on the students than any foreign or indigenous institution of its kind. But the unfortunate reputation acquired in some past decade still clings vigorously in the minds of many, minds that must be either narrow or willfully ignorant. The services in the college chapel are of so unsec tarian a nature that any regular attender would soon see how absurd is the idea that brands Harvard as a "Unitarian college." A true view...
...devotion and accomplishment in a curriculum of studies, adjusted with due reference to difficulty and labor." He goes further with regard to the classics in claiming that "classical proficiency may be distinguished in a degree, as excellence in science, in medicine, in divinity, in philosophy, or in any other particular branch, is now distinguished." This is comparatively a new view of the classical dispute. Aside from the much contested point as to the value of the peculiar character of the intellectual training to be derived from classical study, it is a very sensible view. Mr. Curtis claims that classical training...
...hope on the part of all the members of the committee from the faculty, that an opportunity would be offered by the proposed schemes for a full and free conference between the faculty and the students, on all college subjects; that students would call for the reasons for particular acts of the faculty and discuss them; and that the members of the faculty would call for opinions on current subjects from the students and receive thoughts and arguments of weight...