Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...same time, the character of these courses is peculiar. The number of students who elect them is very small; in none of them was there an enrolment last year above twenty and the average was below seven. Small additions to such enrolment cause little or no inconvenience. Then too, the men and women who would take these courses are generally past their youth, with matured intellectual interests, and oftentimes with considerable experience of work in the world outside. The new arrangement would cause no awkwardness...
Surely without a considerable penalty for failure to return "Reserved Books" to the Library at the proper time we should not be as careful in this regard as the peculiar circumstances make it necessary that we shall be; yet it does seem that the penalty now is too severe. To lose one's privilege of taking out books of that class means a great deal, especially since it is lost for a whole month, and this too, many times, when a little slip of the memory is alone the occasion. Is not the forfeit unnecessarily great...
...performance of the Latin Play was intentionally named for this day, in order to follow the custom of the Romans in presenting such plays on public festivals. Peculiar circumstances of our own therefore make more fitting still this action by the Corporation...
With this understanding, and with the necessary exceptions for peculiar individual cases, President Eliot would arrange the twenty-four hours as follows: For sleep, eight hours; for meals, three hours; for healthy out door exercise, two hours; for "chores," the little calls which each day makes on one's time, one hour; and for work, ten hours...
...here speaking of style. is something quite different from the power of the idiomatic, simple, nervous, racy expression, such as the expression of healthy robust natures so often is, such as Luther's was it a striking degree. Style, in my sense of the word, is a peculiar...