Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Allow me through your columns, in the name of the freshman nine, to thank the class of '86 for the dinner given Saturday. We wish to thank the class in general, and the committee in particular, for a very pleasant time...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD. I wish to add one more complaint to the numerous ones which have been directed against the examinations. The examination in Political Economy 2 was fair in every respect except one. There was one question asked in which the writers of the thesis on that particular question (a thesis is written during the year on topics given out by the instructor) certainly had a decided advantage over the other members of the class. These last few unfortunates were supposed to glean as much knowledge from the reading of parts of the various theses, as days of research...
...learning and a teacher of morals. It is dedicated to "Christo et Ecclesiae," and has "Veritas" for the motto on its coat-of-arms; and what has Butler to do with Christ and His Church or with "Truth?" If it discovers that in giving a degree to a particular person the college will impair its moral standing and lower the value of its diplomas with all respectable and thoughtful men, it is its duty not to give it. Moreover, it cannot afford, any more than any apostle, or prophet, or moralist, or minister, to do a wrong thing just once...
...exchange man while bowing and smiling to some particular lady friends as he was leaving a recitation room, ran a door into his nose, much to the damage of this physiognomical feature...
...universities at Bologna, and the number was continually increased. In Bologna the two great divisions were the Ultramontane (foreigners) and the Citramontane (natives). The universities were divided into "nations," who received the new-comers according to their extraction, dividing them off according to the number that came from a particular district. Universities modeled after those at Paris and Bologna began with charters defining their powers. Most of them received peculiar political rights, even though within a municipal corporation, and they guarded these rights most jealously. The story is told that two students of Paris, having murdered a man, were hanged...