Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been wholly abandoned. The Greek Department contemplate repeating the play next winter, and the money realized from its production will be set aside, the interest from it to be devoted to the founding and yearly maintenance of an Archaeological School at Athens. Other colleges, Yale, Columbia, and Cornell in particular, will be invited to subscribe to the fund, which will it is expected, reach twenty-five thousand dollars. The plan is then to secure a house in Athens, which shall be the head-quarters of American students who may go to Greece for archaeological work. Professors from the various colleges...
...abandoned, especially while Classics and Mathematics employ nearly three-fourths of the Freshman year. It is this and other similar moves that have led many people to suppose that there exists among some members of the Faculty a disregard of all departments but their own, and in particular a hostility to the English Department, which is not creditable to the reputed liberality of their ideas as to college instruction and government...
...amenities of life, and too much for its sensualities; but he has in any case, along with a good deal of iconoclasm, a profound respect for effectiveness, a deep admiration for the man who amounts to something. This does not apply of course to all Westerners, but to that particular and perhaps representative class whose characteristic is independence carried to an extreme. This man will not worship at the shrine of birth, breeding, or refinement, but he will render hearty homage to an energetic worker, an able leader, a manly man. Before the end of his course he will probably...
...will be in the recollection of all those friends of the parties who were at the Jones's party at Chelsea two years ago, that Mr. J. was there, and there first was introduced to Mary Anne, to whom he instantly began to direct particular attention, dancing with her innumerable times, and handing her things at supper in the most devoted manner. That this attention should be very marked is not strange when the extreme simplicity of the girl's features are taken into consideration. From that period began the intimacy between them which resulted in this morning's catastrophe...
...sections will be reduced from eight to six, - a decided step backward; for instruction in languages, and modern languages in particular, to be efficient, demands sections as small as possible...