Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game is not worth a detailed description. Ninety-five had things all her own way. Raymond made three touch downs, and Adams, Wadsworth, Jackson and Miller one each. Richardson kicked five goals. The punt out proceedings were peculiar, and what would have happened had Wrenn muffed is not quite evident...
...comprehensive quarantine law expedient. - (a) Free from objections peculiar to State laws. (b) Other nations have comprehensive quarantine laws. (c) The leading rules could be framed to be adapted to all localities...
...most peculiar feature of the Chicago plan is that the University is to be kept running all the year through, including the summer months. The calendar year is divided into four quarters of twelve weeks each, beginning respectively on the first days of October, January, April, and July; and at the end of each quarter there is to be a recess of one week. Each quarter consists of two terms of six weeks. No student is to be held to an attendance of more than three quarters, or six terms, in each year, so that the normal academic year...
After showing how much it meant to be a member of such a society of cultivated, refined men as Harvard College, he said, "Harvard College stands for many things in common with other colleges, but it also stands for one thing peculiar to itself, liberty; religious and political liberty, liberty in the choice of your studies, and finally liberty in the conduct of your lives. College life naturally divides itself into three parts, physical, intellectual and moral; yet really the individual is one and is not to be separated. We have noticed for many years that no immoral athlete...
...Monthly. The fact that the author, Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore, originally delivered the article in the form of an address at the laying of the corner stone of the Hall of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, in April of the present year must make it of peculiar interest to us. Harvard has always stood for the most liberal views not only in education but in religion, and this fact has been so emphasized and the contrast between Harvard's liberal position and the narrow views entertained by other more sectarian universities has been so often dwelt upon...