Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cotton Mather remarked, "Heaven knows the Reason! The scholars returning to their chambers, found one of them on fire and the Fire had proceeded so far, that if the Devotions had held three Minutes longer, the Colledge had been irrecoverably laid in Ashes, which now was happily preserved." A peculiar feature of morning prayers at this period was, that, after the exercises, the President was accustomed to hear public confessions from the students in presence of all the classes and officers, and to ad- minister discipline, which consisted of degradation, admonition, or expulsion, according to the nature of the offence...
After two years of existence, the Athletic Association of Harvard Graduates is still growing in numbers. The peculiar nature of the organization, made up, as it is, of members scattered over the whole country, the uncertainty which existed at the time the Association was formed as to just what it might accomplish, gave much ground for doubt as to the possibility of a continuing existence...