Word: peculiarities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Those who receive this degree will be fully aware of its peculiar significance and value. It means that the University has confidence enough in these young lions to grant them an honor which she is sure their own diligence would have won if the opportunity had been given. It means more. That degree has been won not alone by a man's own sacrifice, nor the sacrifice of our thousands of warriors. It has been bought with the blood of 278 of our own class-mates, and with the lives of that host of dead...
Opposed to the principle of permitting. Freshmen to compete in intercollegiate contests is the agreement that is in force between Princeton, Yale, and Harvard. By this agreement Freshmen are not allowed to compete on university teams. Moreover, the peculiar situation we are now facing will be over in another year, and consequently Freshman athletics will be on the same footing in 1920 as before...
...addition to the suitability of artillery to the college man it is especially adapted to the peculiar problem of military training at the colleges themselves. The curriculum of the artillery runs more nearly parallel to the academic program than does that of infantry or any other arm. There is enough technical and theoretical knowledge to be learned to keep several courses going throughout the year. With sufficient classroom work to be undertaken, winter drills under adverse conditions would not be necessary in order to keep the military system intact. This is perhaps the most important factor in adapting artillery...
...Union by placing the tax on his term bill, additional revenue would be assured unquestionably. It would not follow, however, that the Union's popularity as a University Club would be enhanced by the procedure. The something which would establish the prestige of the organization as possessing advantages peculiar to itself, and distinct from college gathering places in general, must constitute the basis of its appeal...
...will materially affect the coming generation. We realize now that the interchange of instructors between our universities and those of Germany was not the benevolent scheme that we believed it to be, but an important step in the Kaiser's attempt to influence public opinion here by implanting his peculiar kultur in the breasts and minds of impressionable youth. We are beginning to understand also that in the future we shall be bound more closely than ever before to the civilized nations of the earth, and that it will be wise to impart to the young knowledge of the history...