Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...powerful way heretofore unknown. Reunions are held, reinforced and vitalized anew by visits of committees of genial and eloquent professors. Bright and promising young students in the community are made the subjects of a splendid college missionary interest. The charm of the spirit of this particular college or that is made to enter delightfully into their minds. They begin to grow to the college and feel a real and vital union with it long before they have looked upon its halls or been within scores of leagues of its central habitation. At stated times committees of the professors go forth...
...class preferred Botany, and it being impossible to accommodate all who wished to fake the study, the faculty devised the brilliant expedient of assigning men to either course by lot. The method of drawing the names from a hat, the faculty thought, was calculated to select men with particular reference to their ability and thirst for knowledge in either department. Strange to say, it is claimed that the elective system is not a success at Yale...
...coarse, for it was an understood thing that the authors of them were never to be molested by those whom they abused. Gladstone in his Fifth Form poem eschewed all personalities, but conveyed his opinion with great vigor on some of the abuses rife in the school, and in particular on cruelties that used to be practiced towards pigs at the Eton Fair that was held every Ash Wednesday. A barbarous usage had arisen for boys to hustle the drovers and then cut off the tails of the pigs. Gladstone gave great offense by remarking that the boys who were...
...fact is that our tennis courts are, as a rule, so poor that it is possible to play a satisfactory game on a particular court only after having got used to the inequalities of the ground. No one, therefore, who cares at all for tennis as a scientific game would make a practice of playing on the college grounds, as is now so largely done by many of the most assiduous players, as they could not be sure of being able to use the same court each...
...dean requests all seniors who wish to obtain situations as teachers after their graduation to inform him in writing of their qualifications and the particular branches they wish to teach, as principals of academies and others are in occasional correspondence with him to obtain teachers from Harvard in their schools...