Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Pickering makes in his introductory address to the President, an urgent appeal for money, and details some of the pressing needs of the Observatory, among which is the demand for new fire-proof buildings. In particular is it essential that the library of 29,393 volumes and pamphlets, one of the most complete of its kind in the country, should be protected from fire...
Last night's Symphony concert was of particular interest because the ballet music of Professor Paine's opera "Azara" was given its first hearing in orchestral form at these concerts. The music has tone-coloring of exceptional beauty, and a spirit and freedom of touch that wins for it instant admiration. Mr. Gericke and the orchestra did full justice to the work, and it may be said to have been given under most favorable circumstances. The soloist was Miss Maud McCarthy, who played admirably a difficult Brahms concerto. Miss McCarthy has a power of expression and a clearness of execution...
...same idea might be carried further and lead to a series of lectures on the various professions, before the undergraduates. If representatives of the various professions open to college men could tell, in a more or less informal way, about the advantages and disadvantages of their particular callings, they would do much in helping an undergraduate choose his life-work with some knowledge of the alternatives open...
Though it III becomes the student body thoughtlessly to find fault with measures--least of all those of economy--which the authorities have seen fit to adopt, yet in this particular case the final word of remonstrance seems hardly to have been spoken. That the libraries in question are exceptionally convenient and valuable for a small, but perhaps not entirely negligible group of men who are doing graduate work must be perfectly plain to everybody. That these men, since they are few, scarcely fill the the libraries every evening, does not prove that the opportunity of working there at that...
...learned the other day that it is common in newspaper offices to have what is called a "style book." This is a pamphlet containing not only the special technical rules for the preparation of copy for the particular journal, but also lists of words and phrases which are thought to have served their time and to have earned a rest. It occurs to me in reading the new issue of the Monthly that it might be of advantage if something of the sort were compiled for the contributors to the college papers. Generations of undergraduates replace one another so rapidly...