Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...successive Wednesday evenings during term-time until about June 1, there will be given, under the auspices of this society, familiar talks upon the Massachusetts fauna. These talks will deal with the haunts, habits, and peculiar forms of animals, thus furnishing a suitable introduction to shore and field collecting. They will be abundantly illustrated. They will be given in the Lawrence Scientific School building, west wing, room 4, and will be open only to members and graduates of the University. The subjects and speakers for the next three meetings are as follows...
...successive Wednesday evenings during term-time until about June 1, there will be given, under the auspices of this society, familiar talks upon the Massachusetts fauna. These talks will deal with the haunts, habits, and peculiar forms of animals, thus furnishing a suitable introduction to shore and field collecting. They will be abundantly illustrated. They will be given in the Lawrence Scientific School building, west wing, room 4, and will be open only to members and graduates of the University. The subjects and speakers for the first four meetings are as follows...
...athletic organizations, this is hardly fair. In making up the nines, crews and teams which shall represent the college in all intercollegiate sports, we pick out the best material we can find in the college as a whole, irrespective of class lines. Whenever a man shows marked ability or peculiar aptitude for any particular form of athletics, he is pushed forward and aided for the good of the reputation of the whole college. As far as athletics are concerned, he no longer belongs to any particular class, but the college...
...University Library and athletic accommodation. Under his own direction we may see Dr. Sargent's system of exercise and examination spread by the hands of competent and well educated physical trainers thoughout the whole country. This summer course affords a most thorough discipline and preparation for the peculiar work in which its members are to engage. An age of sane ideas about bodily exercise, outside sports and proper care for health seems at length dawning near. And we cannot repress a feeling of pride that at Harvard are found the seeds of this reform...
...from its organization in October, 1885, up to its final victory over the Yale and Columbia freshmen at New London last summer. It is brightly and amusingly written from beginning to end. Little incidents are told of each man on the crew, and each one is given his own peculiar nick-name. The author gives a very interesting account, to begin with, of the organization of the crew. To quote his own words: "Forty men, more or less, the 'pride and flower' of the class, assembled in the gymnasium, afternoon upon afternoon, with beating hearts and anxious faces. Lean...