Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...succeeding twenty years is shown by the number of students in attendance to-day, 579, which includes several women. This rapid growth is largely due to the high aims of the founder and first president, Wm. B. Rogers, whose plan was to have the institution first-class in every particular. This becoming known. the institution at once became popular, and the size of the classes has continued to increase. The work of carrying it on has been accomplished mainly by tuition fees, $200 yearly for each man, and without any large endowment. This heavy tuition fee will, therefore, have...
...broken ice along the bank an odd-shaped and quaint old bottle which looked as though it might have come over in that receptacle of all New England relics, the Mayflower. Now although the gentleman in question disclaims any attraction to or for bottles in general, this particular bottle proved too alluring, and a closer inspection was the result...
...even tendered to injure the reputation of, one whose promotions unfortunately exactly coincided with those of the Mrs. Obrien referred to in the article under question. We are very much surprised that the article should have been taken seriously by anyone; for it was not so intended, no particular goodie being in the mind of the author, only goodies in general...
...ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston, one Saturday night, only to behold with horror the worst of these stories true-she is to be the only lady in this...
Every proper attempt of the government of the University to lessen the expense of a liberal education must be gratifying to the public, and meet with their hearty concurrence; the members of the community, therefore, in general and the parents and guardians of the students in particular, it is not doubted will be well pleased with some late regulation made by the corporation and overseers, to introduce economy in dress, and will readily perform their part in carrying them into effect...