Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...delivery. The best speaking of the evening was done by R. B. Fosdick of Princeton. Of the Harvard debaters B. V. Kanaley spoke with great fluency and wit, and A. Tulin with commendable power. Princeton's essential argument emphasized the necessity of the development of the individual for his particular career, while Harvard claimed that a student's judgment was not mature enough to choose what is best, and showed that a course of broad culture was the ideal college education. The judges were out about half an hour, and upon their return reported that the decision had not been...
...emphasis on squad work. The coaching plan now is to give all except weight men short runs for a few days, and then to make a division into squads which will run so far as possible at regular times. Mr. W. F. Garcelon '95, graduate advisory coach, will give particular attention to the hurdlers two or three times a week and in a short time Mr. E. H. Clark '96 will coach the weight men daily...
...must be borne in mind that the negative is not called upon to defend any particular regime. It believes that every college should maintain that system which is best qualified to meet its special needs. The affirmative, on the other hand, must prove that the revolutionary system which it defends is better than any other available method of education for all American colleges...
...bring medical assistance to the sick; to raise the standard of living in the settlements which are often degraded by vice and filth; and to give the people who have no means of subsistence the chance to earn an honest living. The stereopticon slides of his hospitals were of particular interest, since they described the relief which is brought to many sufferers each year, and the need which they fill in a land where medical service is practically unknown...
Passing over the history of the past, which has been the subject of his former lectures, M. Millet took up yesterday the fate of the Arabic civilization in Spain. The history of this civilization is of particular interest to us, he said, first, because it explains how the Arabs originally planted their civilization in Spain; secondly, because it tells us how this great civilization in so short a time completely disappeared. He went on to show how the Arabs themselves and the Numidian Berberes combined to form the Arabic empire; how, for two centuries this civilization completely dominated Spain...