Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard College is too business-like. It may not be advisable to stop recitations for any and every little holiday peculiar to this section of the country, but when a day of national observance, like Washington's Birthday or Memorial Day, comes around, it certainly looks as if we too might take part in the observances which are the privilege of the humblest in the land. The example of a certain professor in the Law School, who notified his sections that he would not lecture Tuesday, as it was a legal holiday, is commendable...
After the "Hunter's Joy" the Glee Club gave their ever-welcome college songs. They sang many familiar songs peculiar to college students, all of which were thoroughly appreciated by the audience...
...from our purpose to deprecate the careful examination of such details of a language, or of its peculiar genius, but it does not seem that such study is necessary for a beginner in order to give him such working power with the language as to enable him to employ his acquirement outside of the recitation room. As to pronunciation, the less said the better; it is after all perhaps merely a matter of taste. But it certainly seems only fair to say that the methods employed in some of the German electives are far from accordance with the generally recognized...
...went on the street" where he was known among his set as "old Green," and so when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms, by the way, is quite peculiar and characteristic - uncomfortably so, Miss Winnie thinks. There is a light-green barrel of petroleum surmounted by a bull which knowingly winks his right eye; one hoof is raised to the side of the nose for some unaccountable reason - probably wants to scratch it. The petition has evidently been carefully sealed in an envelope...
...Smith Russell in "Edgewood Folks" is announced at the Museum. We are glad to announce that Mr. Russell has signified his readiness, in response to a numerously-signed petition, to spare us the rendition of that beautiful ballad about having completed all the peculiar roles that Nature, in her all-provident way, has imposed upon the youth who has not reached the age when it behooves him to believe that he has a moustache - "I'm gittin' a big b'hoy neow" - in short...