Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least in the last forty years. It is easy for a disappointed coach, or for an enthusiastic father who believes his son has not been fairly treated in the competition for a place on a team, to say and even to believe that there was alumni interference, in particular by the graduate committees which existed until a few years ago, but those who have followed Harvard athletics over a long period feel sure there is just as much graduate interference today as there ever has been--namely, none. The misconception, based on ignorance or prejudice, or sometimes, it is feared...
...survey undertaken by the Daily Princetonian, while it originated as an investigation of the importance of the Classics in Princeton as compared with that in several other universities, has revealed facts and suggested plans that are of particular interest to Harvard. Statistics that show both Harvard and Chicago following Princeton in proportionate numbers of concentrators in the Classics may give a slight setback to the prevalent opinion that the first two strongholds of ancient literatures, but universities are the especial American these direct results of the investigation are less significant than the project for reviving the study of antiquity...
...exact nature of this last word is not quite clear, but Professor Rogers very evidently feels that a serious situation of some kind exists among colleges in general, and at Harvard in particular. He speaks of a "breakdown in the social organization" and although he implies his belief that the House Plan is a step in the right direction and not altogether false, yet he says it is plainly "artificial". In the first place it violates a Harvard tradition not necessarily a good one but nevertheless a tradition--of individualism. In the second place, a system of fraternities...