Word: particular
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...chief value of Professor Hill's Elements of Rhetoric lies in its practical nature. Designed for use as a text-book, it omits theoretical speculations, gives particular rules rather than vague generalizations, and puts everything in a form that can be readily grasped and easily remembered. An abundance of examples and passages from modern authors illustrate each statement, and numerous references on each page make it possible for the student, if he wishes, to pursue the subject beyond the limits of the book. We wish, however, that the book had a fuller index, so that it might be used...
THIS complaint is not of the marking system in general, only of the particular phase of it that appears in German 7. We do not complain that it is carelessly executed; on the contrary, the instructor takes more pains to examine the books carefully and justly, according to his light, than can be demanded of any one. It is the system that is wrong, and radically...
...College buildings, the result of which will be that those who have rooms in Matthews or Holyoke will have inferior service, because the scout - we mean janitor - will have no fear of being discharged if he does not quite suit his employers. Apart from the manifest disadvantages of this particular measure, the College should never authorize a monopoly, by putting a man into some office, and commanding the students to patronize...
...Nassau Lit. for March shows, and acknowledges that it shows, "an irritated sensibility" in regard to the troubles at Princeton. It is especially severe on Cornell in general, and on the Era in particular, and calls attention to the disturbances at Cornell some time ago. The Princetonian also uses the "tu quoque" argument as a weapon of defence, by complaining of the daily papers' silence in regard to the Yale men's reception of Count Johannes. The Princetonian is entirely occupied with the pistol-fight, and contains accounts of the affray, editorial comments, words for the Freshmen, words...
...federation of individuals for the purpose of extracting from some particular sport a greater amount of enjoyment than could be otherwise obtained is a practical example of the old adage, "Union is strength." Without such federations many of our pastimes would languish instead of being, as they now are, in the vigor of strength; and in some cases they would not even languish, but would inevitably cease to exist...