Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undertaken again this winter, and appeal to Harvard men to assist again in the singing. It is to be hoped that they will receive an encouraging response These theatre services have been very successful in reaching a non-church going crowd and for this reason in particular have been a good thing. Much of their attractiveness, and consequently of their success, depends upon the singing. Harvard men have always been sufficiently interested in the meetings before to furnish a very respectable contingent for the chorus. The same interest should be shown this year; and in order to have the interest...
...library has been made the central fact about which everything else revolves. To do good work, to make any headway at all in most courses, the student must have recourse to the libraries. The class-room and departmental libraries collect just the books needed by a student in a particular class of courses and enable him to get at them with greater convenience. Their popularity has been perfectly evident from the beginning, and they are now an established feature of our library system...
...Scientific School is but one more exemplification of the liberality of Harvard in education. Every step like this which offers new opportunities and introduces a new field of study is sure to result in the end in broader and better education. What should be noticed about this course in particular is that it recognizes as a subject worthy of study and instruction a science, which not long ago was hardly noticed as such. Physical training has had but few scientific exponents; for the most part men have taken their exercise as they pleased. The new step in the Lawrence Scientific...
...Camp in Outing for December, anent its two most dangerous problems - "The Spectator and the Professional." In a brief article of some two pages and a half, Mr. Camp thoroughly analyzes the relation which the spectator and the professional bear to amateur athletics in general and foot ball in particular. He considers the spectator the bane to the success of well-intended athletic legislation because with spectators victory counts for so much more than methods that they are more apt to forget small deceits about qualification and look too leniently upon infringement of rules...
...have executive and persuasive ability he may find the introduction of school books exactly to his liking. This branch is more important than might be imagined, demanding good judgement of the requirements of schools in all parts of the country, and power to show them their need of the particular books recommended. In the advertising branches there is opportunity for the display of the greatest ingenuity; the life of a book may depend on the skill with which it is brought before the public; and, in general, the competition among different firms compels advertising to be novel and brilliant...