Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...custom of stamping in recitations whenever anything ridiculous or in any way peculiar occurs seems to become more and more prevalent every year. - Cornell...
Considerable amusement was occasioned in the auditor's room at the hall the other evening by the peculiar movements of a party of visitors. A student (presumably a freshman), while conducting a couple of ladies down from the gallery, so far lost his presence of mind as to continue his descent after reaching the floor of the hall. It was not until the party arrived in the cellar, and found themselves surrounded by the gloomy instruments of torture for which this part of the building is celebrated, that the unfortunate mistake was discovered and corrected...
...Hobbs, L. S., read his dissertation on the "Twelfth Article of Jay's Treaty" to an interested audience yesterday evening. This study in the diplomatic history of this peculiar article is marked by masterly clearness and conciseness of thought and diction, and gives evidence of thorough and conscientious investigation...
...more practice games - with the "Trimountains," in which Harvard won, 23 to 11, and with the Lowells, who won 23 to 20 - and we met Yale at Worcester on the great regatta day. (In this last game it is a peculiar fact that every Harvard man was out three times...
...costumes of the Greek play are to be sold to the actors at fifty per cent. of their original cost. This plan is peculiar from the fact that the more any one individual did for the success of the play, the more he has to expend to obtain a momento. Indeed, this scheme is so consistently carried out, that Dikaiopolis and Lamachos cannot obtain their costumes at any price - they being retained for "preservation." Pennsylvanian...