Word: particulars
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...object of the course is three-fold. First to teach the science of reading at sight, second to cultivate the voice, and third to bring out the aesthetic qualities,- to sing with expression and feeling. Herr Frese does not adhere to any particular method, but through extensive study is able to present the best ideas of all the different schools...
...acting throughout the play was of a high order and far above the standard usually set by an amateur cast. In particular the way in which Schurz played the role of Argan was noteworthy. In many places his acting was worthy of a high place upon the professional stage, and his reading of the French lines was almost perfect in accent...
...committee of blues" regulates the granting of the 'varsity uniform in each particular instance. This committee is composed of the leading 'varsity captains,- the presidents of the boat club and athletic club and the captains of the cricket club and of the Rugby and Association football teams. They usually award a "full blue" to the members of the five teams they represent; and in addition to the chief representative in court tennis and rackets. On the athletic team, however, the "second strings" get only a "half blue." This differs from a "full blue" in that the sweater has no blue...
...football, as indeed it should be of all our sports, has been admirably expressed by ex-Captain Emmons (in the Graduate's Magazine for March, 1895) in these words: "Let college matches be college matches, for college people, on college grounds." Though Mr. Emmons had in mind the particular evils of "notoriety, publicity and expenditure," in laying down this principle, yet we believe that the departure from it was in large measure the cause of the other abuses. This year, as every one knows, there has been a distinct effort to get back to the more natural condition of things...
...Boston paper which uses outside "pressure" to account for the continuance in regular standing of certain athletes does a gratuitous injury to all concerned. As the Faculty have not of late laid themselves open to the particular charge of showing laxity in the exercise of college discipline, is it not due both to them and to the athletes in question to grant that this latest action, or rather absence of action, is the result of a fair, unbiased judgment on the merits of the case...