Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has spent much time with the Esquimaux in Baffin's Bay, and the Indians in British Columbia and Southern Alaska, as well as throughout the entire Pacific Coast. Besides having written extensively on these particular regions, and on various general questions of anthropology, Dr. Boaz was director of the Morris Jessup expedition to Behring Strait, which was engaged for six years in the study of the peoples of Northeastern Asia and Northwestern America...
Institutions, Mr. Bryce said, are meant to work for a particular people at a particular time. Not only is there a permanent element in political history to be dealt wit--human nature; there are also other elements which, however, are either local or over changing--environment, the stage of civilization, the state of communication, social classes, racial character, historical antecedents and traditions, religion, and the varying necessity for militarism...
...Tuesday the Pennsylvania team had its last line-up before the game tomorrow, and since then the work has been very light. Yesterday the team ran through signal practice, paying particular attention to mass plays directed against the centre of the line. Owing to the impossibility of securing a suitable field it was found impracticable to make the practice secret...
...Bradley '0, has been appointed coach of the team. Practice this week will consist of line-ups between a first and a second team, in which particular attention will be directed towards developing more team play before the game with Exeter next Saturday. A cut will be made in the squad the latter part of the week...
...other regular departments, complete an instructive issue of the magazine, there appears the announcement of a gift of $150 to the Editor, to be used for prizes for the best three articles on the possibility and necessity of establishing a modified English college system at large American universities, with particular reference to Harvard...