Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...course of time, the Regulative Faculty was subdivided into the Discursive, Elaborative, and Comparative. What was the special function of all these, and who invented the nomenclature, is not clearly known. About the Discursive only is there no doubt. The originator was Paleontologus. This man, as his name denotes, was a Greek. He came to England, and adopted it as his paternal land, but could never master the language. There was one word which offered a special difficulty. He could never pronounce Niagara, like other people, but called it to the last Ni-a-ga-ra. However, he is best...
...delay. Perhaps this unjust treatment might be endurable but for the fact that many of his men make their course in regard to second-year honors dependent, in great measure, upon the results of his examination. To them, every moment is precious, since the time that remains for their special work in classics is short. We sincerely hope that the instructor in question will take this view of the case into consideration...
...annual concert of the Pierian Sodality to be given in Lyceum Hall on the evening of the 16th has a special claim on our patronage; for while all our other organizations are more or less independent of college support, the Pierian has only this resource. Nor is there any better way to raise the low appreciation of music at Harvard than to encourage by our presence the few who have a taste for music and seek to create it in others. Moreover, the concert this year promises some unusually good features. Besides the dance after the concert, Mr. Van Raalte...
...understand that a proposition has been laid before the authorities which involves a radical change in the appointment of proctors. All members of a professional school are to be deemed ineligible, and only those who are pursuing some special course of study will be allowed to hold a proctorship. While agreeing that a change for the better can be made, we hope that the plan proposed, if we are rightly informed as to its aim, will not be adopted, because of its unjust discrimination. Men who have gone through college on scholarships and who enter the Law School, for example...
...here tend more to a good general development by using a variety of apparatus, rather than to the special development of one set of muscles, which is the fashion at Yale. The most useful apparatus is the sectional weights, near which a set of directions for use has been posted. By means of these, every muscle above the waist can be brought to a good development. The best time for exercising for men in general is in the afternoon, and this is generally acknowledged by the fact that two hundred and fifty men have been counted who were exercising...