Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little knowledge of the subjects with which they deal; and they are too perfunctory in character to make any real assessment possible. The Advocate ought not to allow philosophers in extremis to declaim upon the whimsies sponsored by Mr. J. M. Barrie. The essays on subjects of no special academic interest are, I think, all of them a little too over-mannered to be successful. The kind of thing they attempt can only be done well by a real master of the essay; and they belong rather to the sphere of well-meaning discipleship than of successful creation. The number...
...Conn., June 16.--The University crew was put through an easy practice today, the oarsmen merely paddling with special attention to form. The members of the crew are rowing as a unit and every man is in the best of physical condition...
...special train for the Harvard-Yale boat races will leave the South Station, Friday, June 20, at 1.03 o'clock and Back Bay at 1.08 o'clock, arriving at New London at 3.40 o'clock; in time to connect with the observation train. Returning to Boston, the special will leave New London about twenty minutes after the observation train arrives from the University races. In case the races, are postponed, the train will start as soon as possible after official notice of postponement...
Round trip tickets at $8.20 each, good on the special train only, may be purchased at the South Station, Back Bay Station, and at the offices of the United States Railroad Administration, 67 Franklin Street. Tickets for the observation train are on sale at the H. A. A. for $4.86 each...
...been customary for the Harvard Club of Boston to run two special trains, but these have been discontinued this year...