Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...study was discreditably small, and that there was a constant increase of men willing to avoid work by the use of printed notes and "seminars." It is thus evident that in many respects the free elective system has proved a failure at Harvard. The system has, moreover, developed peculiar deficiencies. There is a lack of method and arrangement in the choice of courses, and many valuable studies are regularly avoided. Mr. C. S. Moore in a report on the class of 1901 showed that out of 372 students as many as 254 took no physics, 250 no mathematics...
...Faculty, they stamped work done under special direction as of higher value than unrestricted study. What more eloquent testimony than this illustrates the tendency away from the free elective system? Underlying the theory of this system is the idea of individual development. The student is to cultivate only his peculiar aptitudes. College, however, is not principally intended to prepare a student for his profession, but to cultivate his mind and form his character. As Dean West of Princeton said, "College should teach a man to make a life, rather than to make a living." After leaving the university the fierce...
...Peer Gynt," one of Ibsen's early works, displays the characteristics peculiar to his later and more mature dramas. The underlying theme of the poem consists in the obligations which all youth must meet, and the inevitable results of avoiding them...
...inch reflecting telescope, made in England in 1888 by the late A. A. Common, and purchased this year by the University, is now at the grounds of the Astronomical Observatory where it will be set up this spring. On account of the enormous size of the telescope and the peculiar mounting which it necessitates, a two-story building 15 feet wide and 27 feet long is being erected to enclose it. The lower floor will contain a silvering room, and the upper will accommodate the observer. The telescope will probably be mounted about the end of March...
...Woods explained the peculiar but not unpraiseworthy characteristics of the natives of India--their passive bravery, their love of self-directed duty and their aversion to authority and organization, their respect for nature, their deep religions sensibility. To these people the doctrines of Gotoma and his greater successor, Buddha, seemed not unsound. The two leaders believed in the subtle extension of personality, the doctrine that perfect individuals must sooner or later blend into one great whole. Each man must strive for that after-life into which he can pour his whole being. In this way he will obtain the cosmic...