Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to call attention to the disagreeable odor that has pervaded Memorial Hall for the past few days. The smells that arise from the basement are not reassuring to a person at all particular about his food. We hope that the steward will attend to this matter at once...
...other hand, the class races have been made of too much account, and impose too great sacrifice upon the members of the crews. There is danger that our rowing interests here at home may fall under their own weight. Every one remarked the success in every desirable particular which attended the scratch races last fall. Let not the class races depart too far from that one extreme, and approach the other, where the exactions may be equal to those at tending a race with Yale or Columbia. To set the race early, at least four weeks before the final examinations...
...work for the whole nine. Small scores are the natural result. A team knows that it cannot do much of anything itself against an effective delivery, and so devotes its energies to keeping the other side from doing anything. Success in a game depends, too often, not on particularly good play on the part of the winners, but on some particular error or succession of errors on the part of the losers. Base-ball is frequently as much a game of chance as of skill. Some change will have to be made before long in the method of play...
...would call the particular attention of all men interested in economic subjects, to the announcement of the Finance Club regarding the Cobden Club medal. Last year the medal was awarded to Mr. Homer Gage, '82, there being only one other competitor. The medal itself is a very elegant affair, and well worth competing for, but the principal incentive should be the honor which falls to the successful essayist. The club includes among its members some of the most eminent statesmen and economists in the world, and election to the society is generally one of the rewards of success in this...
Nine of the papers represented had sent delegates empowered to act for their papers in every particular, and the delegates of these papers at the opening of the afternoon session ratified that portion of the constitution establishing the association and determining the officers and mode of election. After this action the convention extended to uninstructed delegates the right of discussion. The association then proceeded to the election of officers, which resulted in the choice of J. K. Bangs of the Acta Columbiana, as president, and the Harvard Herald as secretary and treasurer, which position, according to the terms...