Word: general
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the Harvard College Overseers in adopting a minute providing for a certain modification of the policy pursued by the president and faculty for some years past, is one of those interferences by outsiders with college management which must always, on general principles, be more or less regretted. For the overseers are, to all intents and purposes, outsiders-the representatives of alumni who live all over the country-and are intended to be what their name indicates-a sort of council to keep an eye on the doings of the faculty and students. They are, for the most part...
...moral philosophers, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that he contemns them and contemns their calling. Now and then a professor of unusual force or shrewdness or attainment, keeps his place in the memory of his old pupils as a guide, philosopher, and friend; but as a general rule, our American graduates, and especially those who succeed in life afterwards, are apt to remember their college days mainly as days of fun with their classmates, and very rarely as days of instruction from men of stronger minds and longer experience...
...order was adopted by the Amherst senate last Saturday providing for the appointing from the senate of one member to have general supervision over the financial management of each of the base-ball, foot-ball, and athletic associations. These officers will audit the accounts of the various organizations, and immediately report any mismanagement...
...Ward, after briefly reviewing the preceding lecture, called the attention of his audience to the fact that there are two distinct theories relating to the origin of the world and the nature of things in general. The first, or older hypothesis, holds that an uncreated being formed the world with matter he created. He then made man and placed him upon it. The will of this omnipotent being is the force that set the world in motion and from which all energy springs. The second, or modern theory, which dates back to the original experiments of Newton and Gallileo, tries...
...here on Easter Monday that the indoor meetings of the Athletic Association are held. The Athletic Association also holds two out-door meetings. The autumn meeting is a handicap, and the spring meeting, which comes on the anniversary of the founding of the school, is the occasion for a general jollification; lunch is served in the gymnasium, and a concert is given by the school choir in the evening...