Word: rare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...three hundred and twenty-five Yale men examined by Dr. Jeffries, only five were found to be color-blind. Two of these were violet blind, a very rare form of color-blindness...
DANIEL PRATT has been addressing the students of Dartmouth, and the result is an unusually bright number of the college paper. The Dartmouth's notes on the early history of the college are interesting, and the locals have the rare quality of being amusing to others than the students themselves. Personals, however, seem to form the body of the paper...
...life thy paleness rare...
...make a posy rich and rare...
...would attract students from Latin and Greek. It is not in this direction, but as a means of facilitating trade with China, that the study of Chinese will be most useful to Americans As was shown by Mr. Atkinson in his last lecture before the Finance Club, China offers rare opportunities to an American who can speak the language. We hope that the efforts which are now being made under the encouragement of members of our Faculty will result in the trial of a Chinese teachership at Harvard...