Word: singularity
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...meetings has found scant faver. If the college keeps on growing, no hall built in these times will suffice; and the steady cost of maintenance for only sporadic uses make the plan economically unsound. Some thinkers have devised a scheme of a building part hall and part gymnasium. A singular marriage. Some graduates hold that the memorial shouldn't be of any base "utilitarian" character, but purely a work of art, monument, sculptural or both...
...very large. She was huge in every sense, weighing much more than three hundred pounds and yet there was a singular grace in her form and her movements. Her limbs we of the girth of breadfruit-trees, and her bosom was as broad and deep as that of the great June of Rome, but her hands were beautiful, like a plump baby's with fascinating creases at the wrists, and long, tapering fingers. Her limbs eyes were hazel, and they were very brilliant when she was merry or excited. Her expansive face had no lines in it, and her mouth...
Within the past year the Stanford Glee Club has established an enviable reputation. It has sung to audiences aggregating almost twenty thousand people. It has appeared with the three greatest symphony orchestras on the Coast. The singular honor of being the only organization of its kind to appear with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra was conferred upon it. In the Southland it established an enviable reputation for Stanford when it sang at the Pasadena Easter Sunrise Concert at the Hotel Huntington. In San Francisco music lovers showed their approval of the organization by giving it seven curtain calls...
...history of the Triangle Club has been singular. It has, in turn, run the gamut of student derision; professional scorn, distrust and hostility; internal revolutions; and the over-zealousness of student management, eventually to emerge a representative organization, esteemed alike by Faculty, alumni and undergraduates...
Someone will now probably exclaim that the college offers ample opportunity for afternoon and evening work without conflict with meals. Yes, but think of those with a talent for music who can only get positions in cafes and restaurants over the supper hour. It is a singular fact that instead of being a small minority, this class of needy students is of considerable size each year...