Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...William Belden Noble Lectures for 1902-1903, in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock tonight. The general theme of the lectures this year is "Witnesses to the Light," each of the lectures having for its subject a noted character, who, by excellence in his particular line of work, advanced the thought and culture of his time. The subject of the lecture tonight will be "Dante Alighieri, the Poet." The lecture will be open to the public...
...devised a series of exercises, which form a trial more economical and less straining, and which in addition to being a test for strength will also furnish a test for speed and endurance. These exercises are six in number, each being a simple gymnastic movement designed to exercise a particular set of muscles. They are the result of several months experiments at the Gymnasium, and will now be offered as an optional substitute for the old test. In official trials each man is required to complete his total test within thirty minutes, a premium thus being put on speed...
...Massachusetts Legislature, will lecture before the Political Club this evening on "Reasons Why an Educated Man Should go into Politics." Mr. Frothingham will tell of the more important measures before the present legislature and show how the college graduate can be of service in his influence upon these particular questions and in matters of general political activity. Mr. Frothingham was captain of the baseball nine in 1893 and head coach of the 1899 team. The meeting of the Club will be held in the Randolph Breakfast Room and will be open to members of the Club and those intending...
...seems only just that the enforcement of this particular rule be postponed one or more years, or that all undergraduates now in Yard rooms be allowed to hold them until their actual graduation. JUNIOR...
...only as a last resort in time of war. But of more significance is the fact that interference by the central government, firstly, vitally weakens the salient feature of American government--the local control of local matters; and, secondly, it undermines one essential of every good government-- control in particular matters by those people who posses most information about them. A national feeling prompting interference is based on indirect information, not on direct knowledge--local interests arise from direct knowledge. The people of a section know the facts when an act of violence is committed by an individual...