Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this time of our college career-just at the semis-when we are accustomed to take a rather gloomy view of life in general and examinations in particular, and to draw comparisons between ourselves and the students of more favored institutions of learning, both here and in other countries, it is particularly gratifying to be able to point out some peculiarities in which we have a decided advantage over the students of many European colleges. But recently we heard of the arrest of many Russian students for implication in Nihilis plots. This, however, is no new occurrence. For years...
...slow work at the best, and any extra time which could be thus devoted to it would lighten the students' labors when he has also to attend recitations. Another class of men have some experiments which they have not completed or wish to perfect, and the time before their particular examination furnishes just the time needed by them to work in, if the laboratories were only open. Anything which will be of benefit to a class of hard-working men without any extra cost ought to be granted by the authorities...
...educational interests discussed. We can read in this that those different colleges have stepped beyond the line of the old regime, helping to round a man out generally, give him the best of everything to fit him for life and not stuff him with a stipulated amount in a particular time. The changed characters of the men are the fruit of all this...
...trouble of writing out the names upon slips of paper and putting these upon the desks. We all know how disagreeable it is to come into an examination room late and then be obliged to spend five minutes in wandering round in a vain attempt to find a particular blue book, but it is certainly much more disagreeable for those who are already at work to be disturbed by the moving about of the late comer. Examinations in themselves are far from pleasant, but under existing circumstances they are a necessity, and we ought to do all in our power...
...boating history, in competing with men of comparatively little experience. I would therefore like to propose to their captain to have him challenge the victorious crew, and thus, instead of discouraging us at the outset, add to the pleasure of the entire college and the class crews in particular...