Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...recess. It will be open to students of Geology 5 and higher courses in Geology. The principal object of the expedition is to examine well-known myocene deposits on the banks of the York River and to secure for the Department of Geology, a collection of the marine fossils peculiar to this section...
...Faculty to do away with the game. Mr. Fairchild said that he used to think that the game of football was clean, but after examining his photographs he noticed a lot of foul play. While these photographs were on the screen the lecturer went on to point out two peculiar evils, the difficulty of detecting brutality, and the helplessness of men in the scrimmage to protect themselves from attacks that would not be tolerated in a street fight. To illustrate the advantage gained by committing fouls, views were shown of holding in football and of crowding on the bicycle track...
...Another peculiar feature is that no one is allowed to teach in state universities or schools, and almost all schools and universities belong to the government, who does not hold a degree which corresponds to the admission certificate of an American university. Many civil offices, moreover, are open only to men who have this degree...
...Massachusetts regiment and later died on the field, fighting to re-enact the law of God, which his eloquent father had refused to do--I name Colonel Webster, not for the sake of reviving an old controversy as to the patriotism of his illustrious father, but because of a peculiar incident of his command in the summer of 1861. During the dull weeks of army drill his regimental bandmaster had recalled a Methodist camp-meeting hymn with the resounding chorus, 'Glory Hallelujah!' He adapted the air to his military instruments, and it had become a well-known marching tune...
...theatre is fostered by study and tradition, and where already unusual enthusiasm is manifested, an even larger and more comprehensive effort, it seems to me, could be considered. As a new department of undergraduate activity such a play, moreover, would furnish an opportunity for the development of peculiar talents which now, except in a restricted way, are never discovered. GRADUATE...