Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Wisely waiving "the contemptuous treatment of the minority," and "the dragging of this matter into the Boston papers," the Editors of the Advocate devote their attention to "the coalition, prearranged or implied," which, in their opinion, is sufficient to render null and void an open election. Without examining the peculiar constitution of an election, whose validity is made dependent upon conditions, the existence of which it would be impossible to ascertain, and which were not declared to be binding until after the election, and then by a deeply chagrined minority, I shall devote myself to the consideration of coalitions...
...generations are alike. Haunts, habits, and customs change with more rapidity than is generally recognized. The one thing that remains fixed is the tone of the place; and this indefinite atmosphere, which certainly exerts an influence on succeeding classes, can be explained in words only by a peculiar genius. Tom Hughes had this genius, and he has put into his book the tone of an English university; no one has yet been able to do the same for any American college...
...ordinary mortals, - it is in regard to the streets. Next he laments (as Dr. Holmes did only last year) "that the scheme of forming public squares should have been almost universally forgotten." The houses he calls "superior to those of every American city," and says they "appear with peculiar advantage on Mount Vernon (which used to be called Beacon Hill)." He characterizes the people as being "noted for intelligence, love of liberty, generosity, and civility." They are, he says, "distinguished by a lively imagination, having characters more resembling that of the Greeks than that of the Romans"; "from this source...
...energy in the students. While the real reason is this: the Harvard man seeks amusement; he finds it one year in rowing or running, the next year he is tired of these and looks around for some new pursuit with which to divert himself. This feeling is not peculiar to him, it is common to all mankind. The inhabitants of a city are amused by spelling-matches for a time; they get tired of these, and are amused by wrestling-matches, of which they also soon become wearied. So let us not think that our students are morally or physically...
...sections are so peculiar that it is well to quote them in full, and the speculative reader may try to imagine the effect which their enforcement would have in the present time. "6, All students shall be slow to speake and eschew and in as much as in them lies, shall take care, that others may avoid all sweareing, lieing, curseing, needless asseverations, foolish talkeing, scurrility, babbling, filthy speakeing, chideing, strife, raileing, reproacheing, abusive jesting, uncomely noise, uncertaine rumors, divulging secrets, and all manner of trouble some and offensive gestures, as being the [torn] should shine before others in exemplary...