Word: specialization
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...principles of French grammar will be explained, but elementary grammar as such will not be taught; that is, it will be taken for granted that the common forms and rules are known, but the reasons of various changes of form and the general laws that have given rise to special rules of syntax will be studied...
...greatly many rising tendencies to convivial pleasures, betting and gambling, may at any time be aggravated into special activity and force by the representatives of the sporting class, that often hover sympathetically around them. What Christian father, solicitous for the highest future of his son, would not shrink with instinctive earnestness from exposing him in the dawn of his opening manhood to such untoward moral liabilities...
...spring. In our opinion, the University is large enough to allow of each sport being well represented at any season of the year, and it is certainly essential to the development and success of foot-ball that it should be constantly played. Of course this is the special point upon which we take issue with the writer in the Advocate; whether the game can be carried on successfully during the coming season. We are confident that if any person has taken the pains to go out on to the grounds on any afternoon of last week, he must have seen...
President Eliot said he was opposed to any admission to the bar, except after public examination, and that he thought no law school needed special privileges in regard to the admission of its students. He also considered, as in the English civil service, not only the learning of the candidate, but his character and antecedents, should be inquired into. This of course means that every person presenting himself to the bar for examination be required to bring a certificate of good moral character...
...that Memorial Hall enjoys better fare, at less rates, than did the Thayer Club; not only are purchases now made on better terms, but the waste is proportionately smaller. The ability of the present steward in the purchase and executive duties of his office has been the subject of special commendation from the Directors' committee, and the ground for improvement seems now to lie wholly in some petty details of catering, - annoying, it is true, but easily remedied when pointed out in particular, instead of declaimed about in general...