Word: peculiar
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...Roman literature have been sacrificed to men who intended to teach. Interest has been centred not on thought or method of expression, but on classification of verb forms or irregularities of syntax. A knowledge of the latter is no doubt necessary for appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles but real languages, and we should think that the teacher could...
...such a rule. To his mind, the question of the young instructor resolves itself into a question of individual fitness and personality, and the good judgment of those who are responsible for the appointment of such instructors. Every class contains a number of men who, owing to their peculiar aptitudes and interests, are quite competent to act as assistants in the departments in which their special work has been done. To take a concrete instance, the editorial board of the Monthly itself contains a n umber of men whose proclivities show conclusively that they are fully competent to criticise intelligently...
...their use become, with one or possibly two exceptions, that we see every reason for advocating their installation in several dormitories, such as Matthews and Grays, where no effectual attempt has been made to interest the College authorities in the matter. In the Senior dormitories, the conditions are peculiar and we doubt whether common-rooms are necessary. However that may be, we do feel that the occupants of Matthews and Grays have showed poor spirit and lack of enterprise in pushing an innovation which has not only proved successful in other buildings, but also an innovation which the Regent...
...which it is composed. He has been unable to devote the time to this, however, and, in place of writing an article, he gave permission for the publication of a stenographic report of that part of his speech, delivered in the Union on February 23, which applied with peculiar force to the work which the Intercollegiate Civic League aims to encourage. This part of the speech is given out for publication today in the various college papers. An almost complete report of this speech was printed in the CRIMSON of February...
...taste and association. Some men will excel in one thing and some in another; some in things of the body, some in things of the mind; and where thousands are gathered together each will naturally find some group of specially congenial friends with whom he will form ties of peculiar social intimacy. These groups--athletic, artistic, scientific, social--must inevitably exist. My plea is not for their abolition. My plea is that they shall be got into the right focus in the eyes of college men; that the relative importance of the different groups shall be understood when compared with...