Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...column after column. We should even be obliged to deny publication to the Photographic Committee and its frantic appeals, and this we could not do. To get one's name into print is certainly a praiseworthy desire, but we cannot undertake to fulfill all praiseworthy desires, -this one in particular. We would call the attention of the "Four" to the fact that they will undoubtedly receive a warm welcome at the office, where their thirst for knowledge can easily be gratified...
Thanking Mrs. Obrien for her courtesy, the reporter withdrew, and picked his way out of the alley, pondering deeply on the hard fate of goodies in general, and Mrs. Obrien in particular, and mentally noting, in his odorous surrounding's, some excellent material for an essay on "The Cholera Fiend," illustrated a la the Boston Herald...
...have offered the students a course of voluntary evening readings. The selection of these readings is made with great care and through them every effort is made to interest the college in a line of work which will be entertaining and instructive to all, whatever may be the particular work of each one of the students. At one time it is a course of classics, at an other of modern languages. This year a course in Chaucer has been added. Notwithstanding the high merit of these evening readings the students have paid them but small attention. While the evening lectures...
...Library now has a fund of one hundred thousand dollars from the Eben Wright estate with accrued interest, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the administration of the library. In other words the sum is not reserved for the purchase of books or for any one particular purpose, but can be devoted to any object which the library authorities may consider most necessary for a successful administration of the building in their charge...
...stated meeting of the overseers of the college, held last Wednesday, after the transaction of some routine business, a motion was made to amend Secs. 2 and 3, Par. 14, of the college regulations. This particular paragraph may be found on page 25 of the present catalogue. It relates to the required attendance at Sunday service. By vote of the overseers, the matter was referred to a sub-committee for further action. We are not informed as to the nature of the proposed amendment, but cannot refrain from expressing the hope that any changes made may be in the direction...