Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...never used it, fearing that it might be misinterpreted. In the death of Prof. Jacquinot, the college has lost an instructor, whom it will be difficult to replace. Particularly is this the case with French 4, a course which he created and in which he was especially interested. The peculiar merit of his teaching lay in the fact that he was so wrapped up in his subject that he underestimated the importance of everything else...
...experiment which has been tried since its foundation by the Johns Hopkins University of providing special instruction in the higher branches, especially to graduate students of other colleges, is one of peculiar interest and value. With its magnificent endowment, this institution has been enabled to offer privileges for the study of specialties not strictly professional which no other university of the country has been able to equal. It is very evident that a university on the plan of Harvard, with its comparatively limited funds and with its multifarious schools and extensive academical department, cannot hope to afford such instruction...
...management of the college, either active or advisory, by the students, is a thing of the far future. Those secret conclaves of the faculty around which hangs so much mystery, and from which go forth mandates and decrees not to be questioned, are soon apparently to be peculiar to Yale, and will probably be the most conspicuous and lasting monuments of her conservatism long after the present generation has passed away." On the same subject the Princetonian waxes eloquent and gives the plan its hearty commendation. We may, perhaps, look to see the experiment tried at other colleges, that...
...luxurious American society for the practice of endurance and fortitude. It ought to be held out to the rising talent of every generation as a calling in which, like all others, a man who loves it and pursues it with zeal can have not only its special and peculiar pleasures but also a fair amount of the material comforts which the bulk of his countrymen seek, and are praised for seeking by all contemporary moralists and theologians...
...occasions, and sometimes their conduct wakes the echoes under the towering elms of the college yard; but they generally know and recognize the bounds of propriety, and keep within those limits. It is hoped that this commencement will prove no exception to the rule, especially in view of the peculiar interest taken in the affairs of the university this year. Any lowering of the standard now would no doubt be the occasion of just such an order as has been reported this year, but which happily proves to have been unauthorized. - [Gazette...