Word: general
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...Advocate presents a new number, rather above the average in interest. Under "The Week," Harvard's athletic outlook is discussed. The writer takes a gloomy view of the coming season, and calls upon the college to check the successive defeats of recent years by more earnest and general co-operation. For "men must work individually to induce promising fellows to become candidates for the various teams; men must themselves discuss athletic questions," more thoroughly, so as to let athletic men feel "that they are the representatives of a compact body of men" who are "determined to win." The next topic...
...they show conclusively that men find here the advantages they have anticipated, and many others in addition. A full list of the advantages mentioned cannot be given, but a few of those most emphatically dwelt upon by the men who wrote the committee will be of interest; they are: general reputation, superiority of instructors, wide range of courses of instructions, methods of instruction including the elective system; various facilities for work, as libraries, laboratories, museums, gymnasium, etc.; other aids, such as department clubs, lectures, conferences. vicinity of Boston, the cordial relations existing between instructors and students, various religious advantages, financial...
...moral tone of Harvard there is a very decided expression of opinion. The general consensus of this opinion is that the accusations brought against the University are grossly exaggerated, and have but little actual foundation; and that the moral atmosphere is as good or better than that of other colleges with which the writers have been previously connected...
Concerning the excellence of the general spirit of work, there seems little doubt. Ninety per cent of those who write on this point vary in their expressions of opinions from "good" to "never have seen a more thoroughly earnest spirit...
...Best general references: Century Magazine, April, 1889; The Nation, April...