Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...earnest protest of the Vassar graduates against the plan pursued in that college bears upon a singular part of our modern educational training. The protest was moderate and strong in both meaning and language, and deserves careful attention from every parent. The author (who had herself won the first place in the graduating class and was therefore entitled to speak) urged that the system of placing "honors" at graduation before the pupil at her entrance into school as the chief object of her endeavors "induced a nervous strain incompatible with her highest physical or mental development. The system...
...along the ground midway between the posts. After some minutes hesitation this goal was not allowed by the umpire, who stated that he had not been able to follow the course of the ball. As he was stationed at the posts for that purpose only, his statement was a singular one. Had this goal been allowed, Harvard would certainly have won. Time was called at the end of the hour with nothing scored...
...Brown student who was searching, a few days ago, for a missing piece of property in the dismantled interior of University Hall noticed among the ruins of the chimney an old document of singular appearance, which curiosity led him to examine closely. It is a deed to six and a half acres of land, called the Black Fields, in Miteham, Sussex, England, and is dated Lady Day, March, 1651. Brown University was founded in Sussex, England, and subsequently removed to Rhode Island, and it is thought possible that the ancient parchment which has just been brought to light...
...very artistic heading designed by Mr. C. H. Moore of Harvard, and is well printed on excellent paper, of convenient shape and size. Among the longer articles we notice contributions by Prof. Asa Gray, Mr. E. H. Hall and Samuel Kneeland. A very interesting letter on a "Singular Meteoric Phenomenon," witnessed from the deck of the Alaska, is illustrated by excellent diagrams. One of the most valuable features of the journal is the "Weekly Summary of the Progress of Science," under which heading are grouped concise notes on scientific matters of the day, arranged by competent authorities in each department...
...Quite a singular will has been made by the Rev. Dr. Mercer of Newport, R. I., recently deceased. After a number of small bequests the property, amounting to about $200,000, is left in trust for the payment of annuities to eleven persons, old and young. At their death one-third of the property is then to be given to the presidents of Yale and Harvard Universities and to the Smithsonian Institution, for the establishment of scholarships for poor students; another third has been left to the laboring poor of England and Italy. Harvard's third of a third...