Word: specialization
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said to be a favorite idea with some of our educators that, in place of making recitations universally voluntary, the privilege should be limited to those who show a special interest in study; these being determined by their rank either in all studies or in some department. This scheme, while free from such objections as Dr. McCosh's, would also offer a powerful inducement to men in the early part of their course to work hard. To us, however, it appears to have several faults...
Among the first that will be issued are four engravings by Durer, two by Marc Antonio, and probably one by Mautegna. Three etchings will also be among the first: one portrait from Van Dyck's Iconographia, and two of Rembrandt's landscapes. These are selected with special reference to helping in art-study, by the Curator. An equal number, selected by the publisher, will be of this issue. They are mostly from Toschi's engravings after Correggio's frescos at Parma...
...sale at a book-store in Cambridge; they may be, but not through College authority. Messrs. Osgood & Co. issue the photographs in their own style and at their own price, and sell them through any dealer they please; but in return for this they furnish the College with a special edition at the bare cost of printing, which edition can be sold only by the Curator, and not by him for purposes of future sale. This sale, however, is not limited to undergraduates; any person can obtain the prints by application at the Curator's room in the Library...
...succeeded only too well, the remedy is not to be found in condemning the boat, but in securing for the book its fair chance. And, by way of helping towards this, it may be well to point out that the athletic interest has been wise enough to employ one special lever which the intellectual interest has thus far overlooked, - inter-collegiate emulation...
...Curator, it has been as little visited by them as another object of interest in Cambridge, - our fine Observatory, with its mammoth telescope, a sight of which blesses the eyes and satisfies the curiosity of undergraduates but once in their four years' course, and only then by a gracious "special invitation...