Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with all this, there seems to be no particular reason why Mr. Bingham should try to schedule the annual indoor intercollegiate track meet at the Boston Garden. Boston and Harvard have already their share of track features during the winter: the B. A. A. games, the Knights of Columbus games, and the Triangular meeting of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Harvard the very week before the intercollegiate championships. This year, with all the local avidity for track sports, the Triangular meet suffered at the hands of professional hockey games, and other attractions. Set down in the middle of Boston's crowded winter...
...sketches add immeasurably to the fun? "Lady Caroline Balcomb plumbing the Depths of European Affairs" through a lorgnette; "Richard Mallard expressing his incapacity for surprise." The text is a sparkling satire on "our old and complex society," and a bitter burlesque of politics in general and female politicians in particular. It is also an excellent travesty on the standard detective story. The slight plot?international intrigue in the later 20th century?is a mockery, and the countless detectives a taunt...
...first time in the history of minor sports the lacrosse team will hold a training table with a prescribed diet designed to provide for the particular demands of the sport...
...adopted by Johns Hopkins University by which the students were permitted to enter the graduate schools at the end of their sophomore year rather than requiring the regular four year college course. The object of this innovation was to give the advanced student more time to devote to his particular field, thus acquiring greater efficiency. Now, at the end of three years, a report on the system declares that all of the men working under it are doing well. From the point of view of modern education, however, this project is at fault in that, despite the fact that...
...which the nearest approach is the experimental school at Wisconsin. All regular courses are to be abolished and the efforts of the students at Utopia College will be directed to a study of Man--in his relation to the past, nature, society, and the world of thought. Particular intellectual fields will only be investigated as illustrations of principles...