Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Class Day Committee has urged all students who are planning to be in Cambridge to attend the Class Day exercises which will have a peculiar significance this year because of the large number of Seniors in service who will return. All the festivities will be as simple and economical as possible, without injuring their effect. It will be the last opportunity for the Class of 1918 to meet in any considerable numbers until after the war. Informal reunions of other classes are also being planned...
...leader removes from British politics one of its oldest and most prominent figures. A member of Parliament since 1881, Redmond became the leader of the Nationalist party in 1900 after reorganizing its elements which had been scattered by Parnell's downfall ten years earlier. An Irishman, possessed of the peculiar Irish genius for oratory and parliamentary fencing, he compelled and retained for the Nationalist minority the alliance with the great Liberal party which forced the passage of the Home Rule bill a few months before the outbreak of the war. Redmond was deprived of the consummation of his triumph...
...University, was built in 1744, and morning prayers were held there until the building of Harvard Hall in 1765. For 50 years thereafter, services were held in Harvard Hall until the completion of University Hall in 1815. From 1815 to 1858, the present Faculty Room, a room of peculiar beauty and dignity, designed expressly for a chapel, was used for daily prayers and also for Sunday services. The pulpit was at first on the south side and later on the east side. At one time galleries were constructed on the north and south ends and were used by the families...
...about two individuals facing one another; certainly much more than in hordes of men joining battle. There are surely many heroic encounters taking place in the infantry, but we cannot hear of these so easily. Aviation at present is a service where single combat must be the feature. Our peculiar interest in it may be the result of its infancy, for the new holds much charm for us. And yet trench fighting does not thrill us in the same way, in spite of its new place in modern warfare. The romantic element in aviation surely lies in the fact that...
...city of Halifax has a peculiar claim upon our sympathy. The Canadians are our allies, of course, but historically Halifax is closely related to Boston. It was founded in 1749 largely at the instance of the New Englanders as an offset to the French fortress of Louisburg; the trade relations of the two towns have always been close; and at the time of the Revolution many of the prominent citizens of Boston--the Tories or Loyalists--emigrated to Halifax; and fine old Boston names--some of them extinct here--are to be found on the tablets of the interesting eighteenth...