Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first meeting comes this morning in the Faculty Room, University Hall, at 10 o'clock when the session will open with President Murlin's address on "Some Educational Problems and Programs peculiar to Urban Universities." Following Mr. Murlin, Governor Calvin Coolidge will talk of the part that the universities have played in Public Administration. Addresses by Mayor Peters and two educational experts, S. P. Duggan and C. L. Swiggert will end the session...
...would seem as though the hardships of which American university and college professors complain are not a peculiar product of the American climate. The glaring discrepancy between the ever-rising cost of necessaries and a stationary remuneration for services recognized to be of the highest importance to the community is a world phenomenon...
Apart from our opinion on the merits of compulsory military training, and quite apart from any peculiar national or international conditions that make it now more or less desirable than before the War, it would be the worst sort of folly for the University to be identified with a movement for universal service. It seems to me obvious that this question is one about which the University has no business to be partisan. For it to "further by its inspiration the establishment of a universal service throughout the nation" would be as inappropriate as for it to oppose the adoption...
...scientific or argumentative (which Heaven forbid), we might conceivably, as a pastime, consider the Morris-chair and bedroom-slipper variety of economist in the same breath with the statesman and economist who is building a great nation on a new co-operative principle, might we not, and declare our peculiar preference? J. LESLIE HOTSON...
...passports for calling attention to the inconsistency between our national preaching and practice. Never once during the late war did the German press fail to gloat over American atrocities, while now, with the Treaty of Peace not yet signed, our Allies can hardly restrain the accusing finger at our "peculiar American practice of lynching." When it was considered that President Wilson might intervene in Ireland's behalf, it was seriously moved in the English House of Commons that a committee be appointed to investigate and report upon the American institution of lynching, while only this past week a Boston paper...