Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nine common-place, a room is greatly disfigured by this indiscriminate cutting. It is hardly presumable that most men put their names into such publicity with any intention of some day showing them to their grandsons with "I did it, and now I am President!" or from any peculiar expectation, but rather from thoughtlessness. And on the whole we are inclined to think that any thoughtlessness which leads a man into the practice of whittling everything in his neighborhood is open to considerable objection; and so we would recommend that this practice be given up here and allowed to join...
...President Eliot's annual report treating of college athletics as vague and non-committal, and indeed those passages taken by themselves still seem to us non-committal and vague. The result of this conference however may be taken to establish a definite idea of what the faculty's peculiar definition of "professional" is in the first place, and how clean sweeping is its prohibition of "professionalism" in the second place. President Eliot's report contains a sweeping condemnation of the practice of employing all trainers whatever; "They are in favor of forbidding college clubs and crews to employ trainers...
...University of Pennsylvania has placed itself in a very peculiar position. It attempts to assert that hereafter, if they do not receive an answer within sixty days to their challenge to row an eight-oared race, they will be champions of all the American colleges. In other words, they intent to ignore the claims of the old and tried oarsmen of Harvard and Yale, merely because these latter parties have too many previous engagements to accept the challenge of this last aspirant for aquatic honors. College boat races cost more than any other kind of amateur contests because they make...
...would appear at our house for his second Sunday dinner. In the evenings when worked up he was fond of relating how the Turks decapitated condemned prisoners. Standing in the middle of the room with his bright eyes flashing fire he would make with his hands each of the peculiar motions after the manner of a Turkish headsman. When he went out he carried a stout cane like a club, in the end of which was a long sharp spike. This served him as a defensive weapon, for the old man was very much afraid of robbers. On the street...
...library, have at length been surrendered to the exclusive use of that department of the institution for which the building was originally designed. A little more than two years ago the Legislature appropriated $100,000 for a new and incombustible library building. The needs of the university were somewhat peculiar, inasmuch as the number of students using the library is very large in proportion to the number of volumes in the collection. It has thus far been deemed impracticable to allow the books to be taken away from the building, and consequently a large reading room was indispensable...