Word: particulars
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...person who is at all observant of nature and who cares for its aspects as something more than helps or hindrances to his own particular designs, cannot have failed to be impressed in some degree by the mathematical precision displayed by every particle in earth, air and water. A few thoughts on this invariable order will not, however, fully comprehend its grandeur. It is not at first easy to realize that every law, from highest to lowest is perfectly fulfilled in the physical structure of the stars. To many men it is not sufficient to say that of course...
...simplest plan the best, even though it might abolish the class chorister? If one looks at the first four lines of "Fair Harvard," one is struck by their singular fitness for this particular occasion...
...follows: Protestant Episcopal, seventy-two; Unitarian, sixty-two; Congregationalist, forty-two; Baptist, fifteen; Presbyterian, seven; Methodist Episcopal seven; Universalist, five; Jewish, four; Roman Catholic, three; Lutheran, two; Friends, one; Mohammedan, one; "Christian," one. Twelve men were neither members of any denomination nor inclined to favor any one in particular...
Amid so many good things in the October number of the Century it is difficult to choose articles of special value to Harvard men. Of particular interest to the majority of college students will be Edmund Gosse's critical essay on Rudyard Kipling, which is in the nature of a review of his literary work in prose and verse. Mr. Gosse has done his task in a careful, judicial spirit, and the result is an admirable estimate of an author with whom almost every one has become familiar in the past two years. A portrait of Mr. Kipling...
...After this President Horne called on chairman of committees to give brief sketches of the work planned for the year. This work has been getting more and more into clearly defined lines until now the different classes have each their own end in view and the relation of their particular ends to the great aim of the Association is kept continually in mind. The outlook, it is safe to say, was never better. Different committees with their special duties are as follows...