Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...history of clothing at the University. At first it would seem that the students dressed plainly and soberly, but in 1745 the Overseers found it necessary to prevent the wearing of gold or silver brocade and lace. From then on various sumptuary laws were proclaimed regulating to the minutest detail every man's apparel--Sometimes prescribing on what public occasions nightgowns should be worn, and sometimes forbidding them altogether, as in 1822: "A night-gown of cotton, or fabric, or silk fabric may be worn....except on the Sabbath or occasions when undress would be improper." Finally...
...important step which, if properly carried out, should increase the interest in scholarship at Harvard. The general examination is a much more adequate gauge of a man's knowledge of his subject than a series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college...
...Forbes said that he had not yet read the article published in yesterday evening's paper in detail and was therefore unable to give his full opinion on the subject...
...designed, like the Freshman dormitories, to harmonize with the traditional Harvard buildings. I believe there would be little danger, at the present day, of creating an architectural monstrosity like Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre and a very good chance of obtaining something of the simple dignity and delightfulness of detail of the Freshman buildings
...ordered, half-hearted inefficient instruction is not tolerated, and where various measures are effective whereby students shall be inspired to a high sense of their opportunities as well as to lofty ideals concerning their duty to their college and their duty to themselves. In principle, at least, no detail of curricular work is either slurred or minimized; the system is highly professional--and so with those moral aspects of university teaching whose tenets are an inflexible morality and a righteous spirit. All immensely worth while...