Word: general
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...during the first term, to the Freshman class, on the subject of "Integral Education"; the other, during the second term, to the Senior Class, on the "Mutual Relations of the Sciences." These subjects seem to indicate the scope of the instruction desired, and, if made to cover a general view of all knowledge, with advice as to the best methods of study and reading, and the aims to be had in view in studying, a good course of lectures upon them would be of great service. It would be interesting to learn why they were given...
...addition to this a course of lectures might be given by an instructor in each of the principal departments of study, designed to give a general idea of the scope and application of the studies included in it, with as many of the leading facts as there would be time for, so that without making a regular study of every branch, each one might be able to obtain a general notion of its nature and value, both in itself and in its relation to the various trades and professions. A very few lectures in each department would be sufficient...
Aside from the assistance furnished by such lectures in the choice of electives, such a course would have no mean value as a branch of general culture. Hardly any instruction could be more interesting, and though we can learn but little, comparatively, of what is to be known, - of the omne scibile, - yet we have reached a stage at which it is desirable for us to take a broad, general view of the whole field of knowledge. This is necessary that we may have some understanding of the work of students in other departments than those in which it holds...
...serious result. The bottom of a stove in the room No. 4, Old Little's, fell out during the night, and when the fire was discovered by the janitor, it had eaten well into the floor. Two policemen were called in, and the fire was extinguished without a general alarm...
...rising snicker was soon checked by the expression on the Pontifical countenance. Slightly troubled, Antonelli deprecatingly inquired if his venerable friend could n't take a joke; and, as the Pope was beginning to mutter something very much resembling an excommunication "published for general distribution," a sympathizing chorus of inquiries arose, and hopes that no bones were broken...