Word: pecularity
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...graduation is not a time to reflect on one's relation to Harvard with the warm feeling pecular to romanticists ; it is an instant of gaiety at a crossroads of life, a careless laugh at the occasion, and a happy oversight of its significance. Graduation, like tragedy, has its comic element, and its participants accept it undramatically in the way that people experience all great events. Graduation is as simple as the black of the seniors' gowns and the white which their families and friends wear in celebration...
Most delightful perhaps are the author's own contributions to the Globe and to Punch, his "Shilling Nonesence," and his literary recipes. Of the last the "Kippling Chutnee" might be quoted as an example: "This pickle has a pecular mordant quality which distinguishes it from all others. The chief ingredient is unwashed English, chopped, and broken, and bruised with a brazen instrument. Then work in chips and fragments of cynicism the seven cardinal sins, the 'Civil Service Regulations,' profanity, the Southern Cross, and genius. Spice with a Tipperary brogue...
...period of the year which is given up to exercise in the gymnasium has arrived; and with it have come all the peculiarities of such a period. The stranger who enters the gymnasium for the first time is astonished at the great number of athletic uniforms bearing designations pecular to class teams. He at once remarks upon the great size of our athletic organizations. He is much surprised, however, when he is informed that the beautiful display of crimson letters and figures is not a mark of distinction, but a badge of 'varsity. The slender figure proudly bearing the talismanic...
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