Word: special
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...graduates at the present average age, a year or two spent as a classical teacher can hardly fail to be very serviceable. It is of special use as a means of reviewing and fixing firmly the rudiments of a liberal education. It is as to these that a good scholar on leaving college is most deficient, often not prepared for the admission examination. He can read Latin well, Greek passably; but there is a good deal of the minuter details of Latin and Greek grammar that he has not retained, while he has probably lost all of his Freshmen mathematics...
THERE will be a meeting of the French Club, of special importance, next Monday evening; a full attendance is desirable...
...Seventy-eight have shown their appreciation of it. A word in regard to the matter of contributions. It should be such as is of real interest to both writer and reader; old "compositions" and essays on "Habit," "Principle," and what not, - of great truth, no doubt, but of no special interest nor appropriateness to the time, - are better kept for the author's own private perusal. Perhaps we could better omit any specific enumeration of subjects to be avoided, if we had not lately been the recipients of several such articles as we have mentioned. Let us have contributions that...
...special meeting of the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C., held on Friday evening, October 7, the following arrangement was decided upon in regard to the fall club-races for the graduates' cup. The races will take place Saturday, October 31, at three o'clock...
...officio, auditors of the Treasurer's accounts, which shall be submitted to them in such time that their report in writing thereon may be laid before the annual meeting of the club, together with the Treasurer's report. The auditors may fill any vacancy in their number by special appointment...