Word: particulars
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...elective system has also entered into the schools. The high schools of all the great western cities have adopted a system of election of courses, although not of particular studies. The grammar schools of the West have a wider range of study than those of the East. This elective system which has been so rapidly developed is one of Harvard's gifts to the West...
...possibly, a little more difficult to explain the peculiarities of Luke. He was very particular about his specifications of times and places, and inmentioning localities he goes into great detail over them, explaining their situations minutely. Moreover he has a great regard for literary effects, and his Gospel has been called of all the "Gospel of poetry." In addition to these various individualities, there are many others, in the use of words and connectives, etc. While on the one hand each writer shows these peculiarities, underneath we find a dependence which is indisputably proved...
While each man has his own particular fault to work over, the general crew work is good. The stroke is rapid and reliable, leaving the men at finish in excellent position to make the next stroke. This is due mainly to the fact that the men are driving the boat altogether with back and legs, and after breaking arms only a steady pressure is maintained to sweep the oar to the finish...
...attempt here to discuss the wisdom or unwisdom of the New England rule; but we wish to show how the writer in Harper's Weekly, when claiming that the Athletic Committee has been inconsistent in this particular, has entirely missed the point...
...Costigan '92 continued the debate on the negative. He said that simply paying a man's poll tax was not sufficient to induce him to vote for any particular candidate. He ridiculed the idea that the poll tax was necessarily bad because it came down from feudal time. This qualification adds to the dignity of American citizenship. Its abolition would not diminish bribery but would tend greatly to increase it by increasing the corruption fund of the professional politicians. He thought that the abolition of the poll taxes as a requisite for voting would take away one of the greatest...