Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think that the gist of Professor Tyndall's remarks is that unless there be a natural interest between instructor and students, that unless a bond of sympathy exists between them. time is wasted in taking this particular course. Although we may learn much, the lesson will make no visible impression on the mind, and after a year or two will fade completely away, never to be recalled. Yet where are we to get instructiors of the type recommended by Professor Tyndall? This is indeed a gordian knot in the shape of a question, and we must confess has not been...
...jealous spirit of upper class men, against defenceless fresmen. We are sorry that the gentleman did not sign his real name, for he thus prevented us from publishing his letter, but we feel compelled in justice to our selves. to the college, and to Eighty-Eight in particular, to defend the position which we assumed in our previous statements...
...first place the CRIMSON was in a much better position than our correspondent to judge of the game and its results, being represented on the practice field, and at the particular match in question and aided by data concerning the games of freshmen in the past. We wrote not from any spirit of jealousy, for all the upper classes wish well to the freshmen and look upon their efforts with an interest which almost equals their own. Nor was it a spirit of useless criticism which prompted our editorial but a desire to point out in a clear and forcible...
...them at full speed. Another fault common to the eleven is that of failing to back up the man who is running with the ball. There has been very little passing this year by the rushers owing to this very fault. The end rushers are especially guilty in this particular. Falling on the ball has gone almost out of practice here, this year, on the university side, and in consequence they rarely get hold of a ball which is on the ground. The same may be said of the scrimmages. The desire to pick up the ball...
...poor man is "grinding" in his room, suddenly he hears the step of "Billy" in the hall. The letter-slide clicks and in come two or three letters, one in particular, with a nice envelope, sealed, and addressed in a fine feminine hand. It naturally is opened first. Fine tinted cards drop out, and a note is enclosed, engraved on a superior quality of paper...