Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nevertheless, Harvard's large representation is encouraging. With it we find only two serious faults. In the first place, it is unfortunate that Harvard men do not volunteer to work unless they are urged to do so. Perhaps the peculiar atmosphere of New Haven may account for the strikingly large number of men there volunteering for work before receiving any request. Harvard men appear reluctant thus to come forward...
...Corporation has supplied the funds necessary for the immediate erection of a new library, the fund thus contributed by Alumni could be used to make up the loss of income to the Corporation from the sums expended on the new building, and also to contribute toward its maintenance. The peculiar advantage of this scheme is that if offers the chance to every Harvard man to assist in some degree toward the construction of a much needed library. That the plan is practicable has been shown by its success at Yale, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that its application...
...plays produced by the Dramatic Club have been, and will be produced in Boston theatres. He is not seeing inferior plays or inferior acting when he attends the dramas to be given in Brattle Hall tonight. The Dramatic Club needs and deserves the financial support and backing which its peculiar and unsocial make-up deprives it of. To earn this it presents this remarkable opportunity to the undergraduate; he may attend the performances at the reduced rate of fifty cents. In this the Dramatic Club is doing what it should do, and it is to be hoped that those...
...newspapers Professor Paszkowski attributed the enormous advance which civilization has made in the last century; and he ventured to say that the sudden destruction of newspapers would cause consternation throughout the world almost as great as would a universal earthquake. The German press has come to occupy a peculiar position in the national life, at least unusual to America, for there are several large newspapers in Germany which occupy a great educational position in the life of the country. These papers though not as widely circulated as some of our large papers, are splendidly edited and contain only news...
Except as a great loss to the University Faculty, the death of Professor Sanger may not have peculiar significance to those students who have not been in his courses. Those who have studied with him, however, and particularly those who have been with him, during the first half of this year know with what self-sacrificing determination he persisted in carrying on his official duties. Throughout the fall Professor Sanger's health has been such as has brought with the continued strain of his work physical pain that at times approached torture. His courage stood him to the last...