Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hasty awakening is necessary. Let either a general meeting be called or a conference of the stewards and other officers to set a date for a tournament to settle who shall go to Hartford. After the brilliant record made during the summer by several Harvard men, and one in particular, it would seem as if the college ought to retain this championship, if only authority can be obtained for the proper men to go to the inter-collegiate meet...
...editor, to embody in a single work all that is necessary for a study of his author. Prof. Jebb's purpose, as stated in his preface, is to show fully how the work of Sophocles is understood by him, both in its larger aspects and at every particular point, and also to induce educated readers generally to read for themselves the works of the greatest tragedy writer of Athens. For this purpose is introduced the special feature of this edition and the one that will do most to make it is value to the general student,-the translation...
...recommended early in the course and "English should be studied from the beginning of school life to the end of college life." It is only right that the classics should stand on their own merits. "It is not the proper business of universities to force subjects of study, or particular kinds of mental discipline upon unwilling generations." "Finally, the enlargement of the circle of liberal arts may be justly urged on the ground that the interests of the higher education and of the institutions which supply that education demand it. When institutions of learning cut themselves off from the sympathy...
...care to discuss the value of the training afforded by any particular course of study, but we do think that in both instances the true purpose and meaning of a liberal college education is misunderstood. Are we here to prepare for our professions? Then what do the professional schools signify? What we want of Harvard College is not a summa cum laude or a diploma and degree, but the best liberal education that she can afford us. We cannot afford to graduate with the thought that our education is complete. It is only begun. What does "Commencement" mean...
...singular aspect of this post-office academy -making is the fact, of which I am informed by a fellow immortal ranking high on the list, that he and certain others owed their high places to a special "boom" organized without their knowledge by some young admirers and parishioners,-these particular immortals being clergymen. There was also a special scientific "boom," he said, accounting for the especially high position of Dr. Asa Gray and others. These "booms," throwing, perhaps, 25 or 30 votes, were, of course, perfectly innocent transactions, but they had a controlling influence upon the list; and this suggestion...