Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...International Law, but readers will now find most interest in his acquaintance with prominent men here and abroad-with Niebuhr, Humbolt, the present Emperor of Germany, and Jerome Bonaparte; with Story, Webster, Clay, Sumner, Agassiz and Longfellow. Among the many valuable letters chosen by Mr. Perry, one in particular gives Lieber's personal recollections of the battle of Waterloo, and others present a striking picture of the state of feelings in the slave States just before...
...college in the country. Here are gathered together men who have become famous all over the world in their several departments. Of course here and there through the country, at the smaller universities, there can be found one man or more who has made his name known in his particular branch, but nowhere else in this country is there, we think, such a number of eminent professors...
...impossible. When an appointment is unavoidably broken a new one should be made immediately. We hope that every member of the class will see the necessity of backing up the committee in its work and by his individual effort share in making '83's class album complete in every particular...
...Varsity had a very fine afternoon for their foot-ball match with Amherst Saturday, and though the game as a whole was not particularly exciting, still a number of quite brilliant plays from time to time made it interesting for a while. Amherst kicked off at 2.40, and in three minutes Harvard scored a touch-down through Wesselhoeft from which Mason kicked a goal. During the rest of the three quarters the ball was on Amherst's territory most of the time, and three or four times Harvard narrowly missed scoring, but nothing was gained by either side...
...admirable for its simplicity and thoroughness. The merits of such a manual must needs recommend it to every one's attention as a careful study of the wants of the average person who frequents the gymnasium, although it supplies, none the less, the advice sought by those following any particular line of training. The treatise forms first of a series which will include special works on gymnastics and athletics. Succeeding volumes of this series will be watched for with the greatest eagerness by all students at Harvard...