Word: general
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have nothing to say about the importance of cosmic philosophy, or about its truths or errors: I only wish to suggest very briefly some general reasons for forming an elective...
...article by General Lister on Military Drill in the last Magenta was the cause of the formation of a military organization composed of students. General Lister called a preliminary meeting two weeks ago, and since then recruits have been drilled in the Gymnasium every evening. On Tuesday last the organization was divided into two companies, and Mr. Prince, '75, was elected to the command of one company, Mr. Eldridge, '76, of the other. At present one hundred and ninety have enrolled their names, and on Monday next Battalion officers will be chosen...
SUMMER courses of instruction will be given this year in Chemistry and Botany. The former will include General Chemistry, Qualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, and Determinative Mineralogy. Applicants are requested to send their names to Prof. J. P. Cooke, Cambridge, before June I, mentioning the part or parts of the subject which they intend to study. The instruction will be given in Boylston Hall, four hours in the day, five days in the week, from July 8 to August 19. The fee for every course is $ 25, including the use of apparatus (not breakage), payable in advance to the Bursar...
...been a matter of surprise to me during my association with the University to find not only an indifference to military art in general, but a positive dislike to drill and the use of arms on the part of many students. This is owing, doubtless, to the fact that some who have been connected with schools in which drill was compulsory have been bored by it to the utmost limit of endurance, and on the part of others, that its uses and advantages have never been properly set before them. In the event of the following suggestions being adopted...
...have often heard it stated that there is more general musical culture in this country than in England; and this assertion seems borne out by the fact that the greatest names which appear in the programme of the Annual Malvern College Concert are those of Donizetti and Diabelli, who have one selection each out of fourteen numbers. We think with complacency of the selections from Mendelssohn, Haydn, Weber, and Wagner which filled the programme of our last concert. The poetry in the Malvernian is better than that in most of our English exchanges...