Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...different schools of the university are then in turn mentioned, and all seems to be in a flourishing condition, except the Dental School. Particular attention is called to this department. After a struggle of fifteen years it possesses no property except a few chairs, and a fund of $955 in the treasury; and yet it has earned an European reputation, and attracts more students from abroad than any other department of the university. Its claims for a better support by the public in the matter of endowments are referred to. The dining association may now be considered...
OBSERVER.EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON:- In your issue of Tuesday, you publish an article entitled "American vs. English Tennis" on which I should like to make three observations. In particular I would refer to the following sentences. "In volleying. the English player invariably takes the ball as late and as close to the ground as possible, and this he manages to do without losing speed in his return. In fact on the other side the return volley is immensely harder than it is in America. The advantage of this is obvious to anyone who has studied the game. In the American style...
...plan be adopted, has not been fully settled, but one of the plans suggested provides that for each special sport, as base-ball, foot-ball, cricket, boating, athletics, etc., there should be, say, three advisers appointed who have practical knowledge, and who should have special charge of their particular branch. At stated times it is proposed that all these several boards should meet in one body, and, in connection with the Faculty Committee of athletics, consider all questions which may properly come before it, especially in regard to playing, schedules, etc. Of course, objections are not wanting to this plan...
...getting the cup and that there is no need of training new men. There are several events, which we have sometimes won and sometimes lost during past years, some of which we must win next May in order to win the cup. Unfortunately our best athletes in these particular events have graduated, so that for the mile run, the broad and pole jump and the shot and hammer, we have, at present, no one as good as last year. All these events need long and careful preparation and constant practice. We are therefore much surprised that the Athletic Association...
...remembered by the many Harvard men resident in this locality, writes a Worcester correspondent to the Springfield Republican. They tell a variety of curious stories about his eccentricities. He did not like to go into society, and would sometimes spend an evening out at the urgent request of a particular friend. Although oriental in most of his habits, he had a great aversion to tea. This was shown in a marked manner on one occasion when, being asked at the supper table if he would have a cup of that beverage, he greatly astonished the hostess by almost shrieking...