Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...corporation of Harvard College accepted the gift of $100,000 to build a new law school. Mr. Richardson, the architect, has been at work upon the plans since that time. A great deal of difficulty was experienced before the final plans were approved and accepted, owing to the peculiar needs of the school, and desire of the donor to make it the most complete and elegant structure of its kind in the country. The site chosen is to the north-west of the new gymnasium, on Holmes place, and adjoining the Holmes mansion. The exterior dimensions of the building...
...undeniable tendency of our day is towards the gradual loosening of all the time-honored and traditional ties of college and class custom, and, using the word in the etymological sense, the gradual vulgarizing of all the old and peculiar institutions of college life. This year, indeed, has seemed to mark a reaction from this tendency. At hardly any period, almost, within the memory of college students has there been such an epidemic of college hazings and escapades of all sorts. This phenomenon seems inexplicable; but we regard it as nothing more than a reaction from the inevitable tendency...
...Surely no one will argue that what is permitted to a mature youth of twenty-two must be denied to a tender stripling of twenty-one. Far more naturally, liberty of choice in this matter should be given when one arrives at his majority. Of course there is no peculiar charm or virtue in one age over another, but, as we have said, if a limit must be set somewhere, the age of twenty-one and the junior class would seem to be a more natural limit than that which now prevails. However, for the matter of that...
...faculties and to each other should not be placed on the ordinary basis of social decorum, enforced, when necessary, by the appropriate legal sanctions, it is difficult to see. Many old fashions are quaint and charming; this one certainly is not. The tone of the age is against this 'peculiar institution.' Overgrown classes, eager individual work in special lines, the advanced age compelled by high standards of qualification, largely relieve the individual student from his duty as guardian of class dignity and general corrigeur des moeurs...
Although we live in such an age of modernness and conventionality, Harvard still is able to retain many of the peculiar characteristics of college life in days of old. She still has her college pumps - Massachusetts with her ancient gable windows yet remains as a memento of a former age - and there is Jones, the faithful janitor of many years, and Cleary, and John, the fruit man, who continually serve to remind us that we live apart in a world by ourselves, with its own peculiar laws and its own more peculiar characters. John, the fruit vender, has been...