Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the professors of any particular college are not competent to regulate its discipline and curriculum, we answer that they are in that case unfit for their places, and that better men should be found, and better salaries paid, if necessary, to get them, and not that the government of the college should be handed over to persons burdened with other cares, and whose chief attention is given to other subjects...
Harvard's representatives made a creditable showing in the games, considering that the men were so heavily handicapped. Lee's jumping, in particular, called forth much applause. Most of the events contested solely by the Roxbury school men were very close. The sparring matches were especially well fought, and the meeting on the whole was more interesting than usual...
...Heine's Pictures of Travel," displays an intimate sympathy with the author, as well as an understanding of his moods and surroundings. "The Difference," a continuation of "Is there a Difference?" which appeared in the last number, is a natural piece of dialogue, but aside from that has no particular merit. The poetry of this number is not above the usual run of Advocate verse. The number is completed by the usual book notices and "Advocate's Brief...
...term anthropology was first applied to man in a moral sense only, then to man physically, and finally to man taken as a whole. Kants Anthropology was nothing more than a treatise on psychology. The true anthropologist is he who, while he examines particular facts in every branch connected with his study. looks at them all as a unit. "Anthropology is the science of man and man's life." Ethnology is included in anthropology, as man must be known not only in groups but separately and in different classes...
...Government." Ex-Mayor Seth Low of Brooklyn, gave the opening lecture January 4. Professor Woodrow Wilson of Wesleyan gave the second on the evening of January 11. Professor Wheeler, of Yale, Prof. Hart, of Harvard, Profs. Chapin and Gardner, of Brown, and others are to follow, each discussing some particular phase of the question. The Glee and Banjo Clubs gave a very successful concert in Norwich, Conn., on Friday evening last. They are now making arrangements for an extended trip, to take place about Washington's birthday. Plans have finally been adopted for the new physical laboratory, and ground will...