Word: specialize
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...make no pretense of any special knowledge of college finances which would justify us in offering any positive opinions on the matter, but for all apparent reasons it would seem to be one of the best financial investments the university could make to build another college dormitory. There is certainly need for one - the excessive demand for rooms in the present buildings, and the apparent willingness of students to pay any charge for rent, however exorbitant, is sufficient evidence of that. The demand is growing more pressing every year, and would seem to be one that could be justly satisfied...
...true journalistic insight. The Philadelphia News is another paper that has a weekly department of college notes. The Boston papers of late years, it is well known, have been devoting much attention to college news and particularly to Harvard matters; several indeed find it worth their while to employ special college reporters. The Post publishes daily Harvard College notes; and the college articles of the Sunday Herald and Globe are already famous among their student readers...
...special meeting of the overseers of Harvard College was held at the treasurer's office, in Water street, Boston, yesterday, Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar presiding, when President Eliot of the college submitted the following votes...
Voted, by the college faculty, that the president and fellows will hereafter assign to special students some of the unrestricted scholarships heretofore used by undergraduates, reference being had to the relative numbers of undergraduates, and special students who may be candidates for scholarships; also that the president and fellows consider the assignment to graduate scholars of some of the like unrestricted scholarships...
...placed on the ordinary basis of social decorum, enforced, when necessary, by the appropriate legal sanctions, it is difficult to see. Many old fashions are quaint and charming; this one certainly is not. The tone of the age is against this 'peculiar institution.' Overgrown classes, eager individual work in special lines, the advanced age compelled by high standards of qualification, largely relieve the individual student from his duty as guardian of class dignity and general corrigeur des moeurs...