Word: specialization
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...popularly supposed to be a handsome, well-dressed, and particularly self-indulgent Fakir. Like Lady Teazle, I admit all the rest, but beg leave most emphatically to deny the Fakir; and would earnestly question whether this indifference be not the result of our now superficial ideas and lack of special application. It is also true that, as we have some acquaintance with that life of polished dissipation and fruitless travel which we are pleased to consider "the world" our estimate of the real world, as we argue from a part to the whole, may naturally be of a peculiarly fallacious...
...team left Boston on Thursday at 6 P. M., in a special car, and arrived at Montreal on Friday, after a very comfortable journey. The next morning was spent for the most part in making purchases; and after separating into parties, the different members of the team drove around to see the "sights," and were much entertained by the quaint costumes and buildings of this fine old city. In the afternoon they went to McGill College, where they practised for a short time in a scrub game with each other; all the men seemed to be in fine condition...
THERE will be a special business meeting of the St. Paul's Society, Monday evening, June...
Since the above was written, we have received a circular containing information with regard to this very subject, in which we were most happy to find the following sentence: "In special cases the Academic Council is authorized to remit the requisition of residence at the University to Bachelors of Arts or Science of Harvard University." We learn from this circular that there will next year be twenty-four extra courses designed especially for Bachelors of Arts; all this to be in addition to the regular elective courses, which will still be open to graduates. There will also be evening readings...
...comments upon its working; and there are now two elective courses in Political Science, - the one using the works of Fawcett and Blanqui as text-books; the other that of J. S. Mill. In both courses Bagehot's Lombard Street is studied, and in one of them special attention is paid to the subjects of currency and taxation. These courses are conducted on the very plan which the Post supposes to be unknown in America, - the instructor devotes a great portion of his time to pointing out the practical application of the theories studied...