Word: peculiar
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...able to take for itself three buildings at the north end of the Yard, and the future of the Senior dormitory scheme is by no means assured. From the standpoint of the Seniors, it has invariably proven satisfactory in spite of the handicap assumed at the start in the peculiar assignment of the rooms; but on the other hand, there is the excellent contention that a mixture of men of all classes, of law and graduate students even, is the best possible arrangement for a dormitory in giving a man opportunities for friendship with men both older and younger than...
...risk of seeming trivial we desire to call attention to a peculiar manner in which certain ambitious students are endeavoring to secure a generous return on their investment for membership in the Union. These thrifty individuals are consuming vast quantities of writing paper stamped with the Union crest, in writing theses and taking notes. Possibly these offenders are acting through ignorance, but we are quite sure that their own note paper would never be used for such a purpose. Is the slight saving in stationers' bills sufficient compensation for the loss of self-respect which can but accompany such...
...youth is the season of hope, ambition, and uplift--that the last word youth needs is an exhortation to be cheerful. Some of you here know, and I remember; that youth can be a season of great depression, despondencies, doubts, and waverings, the worse because they seem to be peculiar to ourselves and incommunicable to our fellows. There is a certain darkness into which the soul of the young man some time descends--a horror of desolation, abandonment, and realized worthlessness, which is one of the most real of the hells in which we are compelled to walk...
...Harvard the position of the class is a peculiar one. Although the basis of all our undergraduate life and endeavors, it is nevertheless, as a unit, tending to become absorbed in the "University." Our closest friendships and all our associations are still controlled by class lines, however, and those of us who wish to see this condition strengthened are doing everything to promote class enterprise and class segregation...
...current number of the Advocate is in many was a worthy and even remarkable product of the undergraduate literary mind. There is throughout a note of maturity, due no doubt to the peculiar atmosphere of Harvard as contrasted with other universities. The main editorial, dealing with the American stage through the medium of a lecture by Mr. Percy MacKaye, is a thoughtful and unusually serious statement of modern dramatic effort. If somewhat idealistic in tone, we must remember that the idealism of youth becomes oftentimes the truth of age. The quotation from Arnold is significant: "Organize the theatre! The theatre...