Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...These inoffensive looking young men arrived by the correct train and sat down to a very handsome supper, safely guarded from its real owners. For several hours the fun was kept up aided by music from the minstrels and band, and stolen toasts prepared by the unlucky freshmen. In particular, one which said that: "The class of '87 is the largest class that has entered the university for five years, and if every succeeding class is morally, mentally, intellectually, and physically superior to its predecessors as we are to our brethren of '86, Cornell will, in a few years, lead...
...wish to call particular attention to the petition to the faculty which has been placed in the office of the Cooperative Society. As the faculty meeting at which it is to be presented is called for tomorrow afternoon it is necessary to sign at once. As it is intended to be a free and voluntary expression of opinion it was not deemed best to carry it around from room to room, as in that case some might be influenced to sign against their convictions. But because it is voluntary and each man desiring to sign must take the trouble upon...
...submitting this statement, we would not wish to be understood as impugning, in the least, the motives of the Faculty in passing these resolutions, as we are convinced that they have at heart the best interests of athletics in particular, and of the students in general. The difference between the Faculty and the students on this question is not so much one of kind as of degree, and as the practical experience of the latter in athletics is apt to be greater than that of the former, we think their opinions ought to be considered before any final action...
...would probably tend to favor the smaller colleges at the expense of the larger ones. We believe that the undergraduates are entirely competent to make all necessary rules, to settle all disputes, either directly or by arbitration, and to exercise a general supervision over all necessary measures in their particular departments. Controversies are as likely to arise between members of a committee composed of older men as between undergraduates, as the experience of the past has shown...
Apart from the judiciousness of any detailed rule of this nature, we also object to this particular rule as it stands. Many old rowing men, and medical men, who have been consulted, and who are prepared to express any opinion, say that a three-mile race is apt to be more injurious to the members of the crew than a four-mile race would be. The reason for this is that although the strain lasts a shorter time, it is of a much more violent nature in a three-mile, than in a four-mile race...