Word: special
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...special committee on tutoring has been appointed by the faculty...
...TUESDAY.College Faculty. Special meeting at University...
...ANTHROPOLOGY.Dr. Ward will deliver a series of four Monday evening lectures in Sever 11, beginning Feb. 18, at 7.30 o'clock, his subject being Anthropology, or the Scientific Method Applied to Man; including an historical sketch of the new science, its method and scope; the anthropological method illustrated by special subjects, such as the old and new ideas of the world, man's age in the world, his physical and mental development, the question of progress or retrogression: sociology and the development of the social condition; and the advantages to be gained from anthropological study. The lectures will be open...
This discussion has a special interest for us who are students. The evils of the present system of examinations are evidently not so developed here as in England; but the system has always been recognized as a possible source of danger in the encouragement it lends to work for rank only. The student of shallow principles and superficial attainments often forgets not only that knowledge is the first object of education, but that honesty is a necessary constituent in the character of a gentleman. Some things are best perceived through their influence upon the objects about them. We know that...
...candidates for the Mott Haven team have been divided into squads for the special work they are to take up. The sprinters will be under the charge of Kulp, of the Medical School; the long-distance runners under Hulme,'89; the jumpers and pole-vaulters under Webster, who won the high jump at the intercollegiate games last year; the shot and hammer men under Bowser...