Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peculiar, is it not, that American efficiency and ingenuity must allow such an ugly peril to gain foothold in order that lusty private enterprise might coin more wealth and on the other hand spend thousands of the taxpayers' money to control and fight the dread scourge...
...bonds bounded up on the news, Britain's famed Manchester Guardian, its excited editors ignoring Newfoundland's non-dominion status, asked: "Is this claim to suppress the Dominion constitution in order to avoid default on external debt payments to be confined to Newfoundland? If so, on what peculiar theory of Empire relationships is the claim based? Are the financial arguments strong enough to justify such interference? In a word, is no lesser measure possible which would equally well secure the necessary reforms in the dominion...
...following statement was issued by Mr. Rowe yesterday: "Plans have been made for a series of inter-house debates on questions of peculiar interest to members of the University in the houses, as well as on questions of wider general concern. A committee will be formed in each house, and these committees will probably meet some time late next week. They will arrange the promotion of debating activity among the house members. From the warm responses we have had thus far from residents of all the houses there is every reason to hope that inter-house debating will become...
...rigidity of the system does not recognize the fact that many students would find it a great convenience to arrange their schedules, insofar as the number of courses a year is concerned, according to their own peculiar needs. Those majoring in the sciences, for instance, often find it desirable to take five courses one year and three the next, as difficulties increase with promotion. Yet despite the fact that in this case the student averages only the usual four courses a year, he is in reality paying a $100 bonus to the University for the privilege of distributing his time...
...present premium on superficial language study decline, through the additional literature requirement. The principal objection to such a reform is that it would discourage a large group of applicants hitherto acceptable. But of every reform, of every advance in standards, this must be the implication. It is the peculiar weakness of many colleges that they cannot afford to be selective. Surely it is the peculiar privilege, and the peculiar responsibility, of an institution so richly endowed as Harvard...