Word: specialization
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Niagara Index man is still on the war-path. The Bowdoin Orient and the Dartmouth are the special objects of his spite this time. Hear what he says: "The Orient has seven editors, but we never could, and probably never will, be able to locate their labors. The paper has no editorials. "The nine boyish editors of the Dartmouth are in paroxysms of grief..... Why our editors do not flaunt their patronymics to the breeze is none of the Dartmouth's business." Harvard comes in for the following: "This [i. e. the restriction of books at the Library...
There was one branch of science for which I thought I had a special taste; I did my paper without a single mistake. Approaching the desk with a confident smile, I was informed, "Your paper was perfect, - not a single error; your mark is eighty-six per cent." "Why," said I, in a discouraged way," "I thought you said that I did a perfect paper." "So I did," said the scientist, in an angry voice; " I never give a higher mark than eighty-six." I wanted to ask him if 86 = 100 with the Faculty in reckoning up averages...
...would undoubtedly attract to Harvard men who ought to be here, but who are so situated that they cannot confess the pinch of poverty which sends them to inferior colleges. They would encourage earnest work by offering to students, through their own exertions, the means of procuring special instruction during the long vacation, or upon graduating...
...only colleges as yet definitely committed to the support of the new scheme are Wesleyan and Bowdoin, which have wisely decided to compete for the four-oared prize of the N. A. A. O., rather than row a special race with one another as previously arranged. Wesleyan already has fifteen man in training. At Princeton and Rutgers there is considerable talk of entering for the same prize, and another possible competitor is the University of Virginia, provided its four-oared crew should win the race at Lynchburg on the last Friday of June. Should the University Eight of Harvard announce...
...meeting of the Consular Representatives of different governments was held recently in this city, to consider a proposition for having a grand World's International Amateur Rowing Regatta in August of next year upon the Lake of Geneva, comprising the general order of races, with a series of special races for University Oarsmen...