Word: particular
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...particular concern at present is the outdoor winter sports. The inadequate facilities for indoor sports in the Hemenway Gymnasium and the growing feeling against basketball make it imperative that the outdoor sports be placed as largely as possible at the service of those who play for the fun of it and for the fresh air it puts into their lungs. Through a chain of unfortunate circumstances scrub hockey was either neglected or prevented last year. The opportunities afforded this year by the ice on the river near the boat houses will relieve the congestion which has existed in the Stadium...
...improves on acquaintance. Nor does Scrooge's ghost come slyly down the chimney and pass on like a shadow, for after all it wants to make friends and is always ready to go more than half way in doing so. And it always feels that it has a particular claim on the Yule-tide season...
...choice is often made with a superficial knowledge of the nature, inducements and difficulties of the different professions. It is also based on the belief that the occupations known as professions are all equally worthy, and that even those men who think they have a clear predilection for a particular profession make a great mistake if they do not see what the others have to offer. In the choice of lecturers the Governing Board hopes to secure men of distinction in every subject--taking sometimes men who are far advanced in successful careers and sometimes comparatively young men who having...
...will give opportunity for the first-year men to get an idea of what their class really contains. There are various elements in every class which do not come in contact except through some such means as a smoker. Before these elements become too firmly fixed in their particular interests, it is well to mix them up together as thoroughly as possible and give the other man a broader idea of what the first year of University life should mean. Let every Freshman take it upon himself as his first act of duty to the class...
...corresponding Saturday of last year 161 men were absent from their 12 o'clock appointments and on the day of the Dartmouth game last year there were 228 men cut the last hour in the morning. Here was one of the so-called evils of intercollegiate athletics, and in particular intercollegiate football, and it happened to be one of the first to be dealt with...