Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Francis Greenwood Peabody. It contains a collection of short addresses on personal religion, delivered by Dr. Peabody at morning service. Each of these little monographs evolves briefly one distinct thought, a mere suggestion to be worked out to its conclusion by each individual and applied to his own particular needs. A large variety of topics are touched on, all of them personal and direct to a high degree, and treated in Dr. Peabody's characteristically straight-forward manner...
...offices of Secretary, Orator, Poet, Odist, Ivy Orator and Chorister are positions of great responsibility; and the men who are to fill them should be chosen solely for the particular ability which each man has to fill the place for which he is nominated. The offices of First, Second and Third Marshals are positions requiring less ability of one particular kind or another. They are in large part honorary, and to them should be elected those men who have been most prominent among their fellows and who have done the most for the University and for the class...
...Particular attention is called to the rule forbidding any but the committee and tellers to gather around the chairman's desk. Conformation to all the regulations is earnestly requested...
...they are about to bestow be fairly and honestly won. There will be close contests for some places; friends will solicit votes for their favorites; that is inevitable. There should be, however, no more iron-clad pledging of men, in clubs or out, to support a man for a particular office merely because his name is on the slate. Clique and society lines should be obliterated in Harvard class elections. It is impossible to see how the true Harvard spirit can be fully awakened so long as one-third the members of each Senior class deliberately sacrifice university ideals...
...Early History of Virginia and the Other Southern Colonies" will be read with great pleasure throughout the University. To those who are at all interested in American history the attractive subjects of the lectures and the acknowledged authority of the lecturer on these subjects will make the series of particular interest and value...