Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Until within the last few years the influx of students to Harvard College has come, to a great extent, from the New England States, Massachusetts in particular, and so large has the percent from Boston and its environs amounted to, that the college has had the name of being a Boston college altogether. Latterly, while the New England element has remained about the same, the increase from the south and west has been noteworthy, and its influence is felt more and more each year upon the classes. Many people believe that the influence and reputation of the college accounts...
...resolutions can be considered under three general heads: In the first place, so far as they are directly anti-professional and express the extreme views of the Harvard faculty on this question. This is an aspect that does not require particular discussion here. In form the resolutions include well enough a complete prohibition of "professionalism" from college athletics. In this respect as in others their effect will depend entirely upon the interpretation given to them and to the degree of strictness or of laxity with which they are enforced. We do not see that there is any common tribunal...
...could be farther than is the writer, from desiring to discourage those men, (far too few in numbers), "who come to Harvard for thorough study in some particular branch of knowledge." The reform is urged only for the sake of removing the temptation, which now exists, to take one's electives from a single branch of study, not with the purpose of making it a life work, but from motives of indolence, or from ambition for collegiate distinction...
...determine whether any, and, if any, what distinction should be made between the members of a particular elective would in some cases be a delicate matter; the advanced student ought always to have the benefit of the doubt...
...extensive iron ore mines, where every facility will be afforded students to put into practice the scientific knowledge acquired in the class room. To aid in the establishment of a thorough school of mines, some $200,000 is needed, and as Washington took so much interest in this particular university, it seems peculiarly fitting that his birthday should be made the occasion of such a gift as the one in contemplation. "It was when Washington was in Philadelphia, in 1796, as president," says Progress, "that he made the munificent gift of $50,000 to Liberty Hall Academy, now Washington...