Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...object was that of a University Club--to pull the University together. In order to give some definite interest to the club, it was decided to organize it as a debating club. This specialization of one particular interest proved fatal to the plan of uniting the college, for after the original founders had graduated, their purpose was forgotten, and the Harvard Union lasted as a debating club only, until its name was changed to the University Debating Club...
...hoped that they will be able to watch the cage practice occasionally, but they will not begin regular work until the team gets outdoors. For the present the practice will be under the direction of Captain Reid, and Lewis of the Boston League team, who will give particular attention to the pitchers. In about two weeks Hamilton of the Boston team will begin coaching batting and base-running. The professionals will stay with the team until the end of the cage work. P. D. Haughton '99 will assist in coaching the infielders and W. H. Rand '98 will coach...
...every college for its own sake and for the sake of the general cause of education to maintain those ideals separate and distinct. While I shall not assert that the Harvard requirements are better than those of all other colleges. I do believe them to be best for the particular kind of training the University aims to give, and I believe they should be uncompromised. Furthermore, examinations based on those of the average college would be utterly different in kind from Harvard's. The Harvard examinations in Greek and Latin, for instance, are based on sight work and those...
...first lecture Mr. Brown will review briefly the history of the southernmost parts of the Union up to the time of the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and will discuss the civilization of the cotton states under the slavery regime. Particular attention will be given to the topics discussed and the reasoning employed in such books as Cairnes's "Slave Power" and Von Holst's "Constitutional History." It will be the lecturer's aim to make plain the effects of slavery and the plantation system on the people of the cotton states and the causes which gave these states the hege...
...hundred and eighteen of these original manuscripts are soon to be sent to this country to be distributed among certain universities and colleges. Pennsylvania will receive 29; Harvard, 19; Yale, 16; Columbia, 16; Princeton, 13; Hamilton College, 5; Vassar College, 4. No decision has been reached as to the particular manuscripts which each will receive, for the allotment is made difficult by the varying value of the different papyri...