Word: particular
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...management certainly deseves censure for its slowness in the matter. There was no excuse for not finding out every particular in regard to the trains, and then after that it would seem that the captain did not make an effort to get his men together and go to Exeter proportionate to the trouble which the management there took to arrange the game...
...current number of the Advocate, while it contains several very interesting articles, is hardly as good from a literary point of view, as the previous numbers of the year. The editorial column lacks dignity to make it effective. The leading editorial in particular is open to this criticism. The graduate movement which it so caustically refers to as "patronizing," and "kind," may not have the force and value which have been claimed for it, but it at least deserves commendation more than sneers. The editorial on the founding of Clark university is written in the same spirit of contempt...
...parable of "The Little Game of the Blue Hound" is very bright, though that particular vein of humor is about exhausted. The daily themes cover a variety of topics, and as a whole are good. The publication of the first might be considered in rather questionable taste, if the paper were intended for general circulation...
John Blakie the boat builder, will within a few days turn out to the '91 crew a cedar shell, which he is building for them This fact would not be of particular importance, were it not that on the success or failure of this boat depends whether or not the 'varsity crew will go back to a cedar shell in stead of a paper shell which kind they have been using for several years. The boat has been built with great care and will have more than ordinary buoyancy. The bracing of the boat is the feature of particular interest...
...Bowditch concluded that where a type exists among a group of faces the composite photograph can be trusted to give faithfully all that is typical of the several faces. Valuable applications of this principle have been made. For instance, composite photographs have been made of people suffering from a particular disease as a guide for doctors in forming a diagnosis. The effect of different studies such as mathematics and natural history on a face may be observed. If is a curious fact that a composite photograph is generally more beautiful than any one of the component pictures. Dr. Bowditch suggested...