Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...loses its greatest light in science, and perhaps the most distinguished of its professors. Mr. Peirce had been for forty-seven years a professor in the College, -the longest time, with but one exception, that any one has held such a position. He was a born mathematician, with a special talent for astronomy as well. During the whole of his long and honorable career he was noted for his untiring energy, as well as for the brilliancy of the results at which he arrived. This year he intended to give a new course, - Cosmical Physics, - in which were...
LAST Saturday, while the Class Races were in progress, some thief or thieves stole money from lockers in the Boat House. We learn that the officers of the Boat Club took every precaution to insure the safety of articles, by ordering the door to be locked and a special officer to be in attendance during the afternoon. But in spite of this, it is none the less aggravating to those who lost money, and since there seems no way by which to prevent sneak-thieves from practising in the Gymnasium and Boat House, we suggest that the wisest course...
...operator, a ???." At this point his emotion again mastered him, and another speaker demanded my attention. And this is what he said: "In the name of the Faculty of Ha-v-erfo(rd) College, I award highest honors to you as a reward for excellence in the special subjects covered by your examinations. And, further, as a reward for the originality and general culture displayed throughout your papers, the degree of D. D., after mature deliberation, is conferred upon you; and as an additional proof of our esteem you will henceforth be allowed to send in petitions on the ground...
...waistcoats; green ribbons were also proposed by a Sophomore, who happened to be present, but they finally decided to wear no ribbon at all, on the ground that there was something about a Harvard man which rendered him easily distinguishable at all times and in all places without a special badge...
...choosing exactly twelve or exactly fourteen hours) will be counted on the general scale as hours of electives, unless they are put down on the list of electives, or unless notice of taking them regularly is given before the date mentioned. Extra hours may still count on the special scale of any study. It has been found necessary to make this restriction on account of the changes that have become so numerous late in the year. The pamphlet will be distributed in a very few days...