Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Memory of the Revolution" is an interesting description of the disinterment of the remains of an officer supposed to be General Frazer of Burgoyne's army...
...Monday's CRIMSON we spoke of the small attendance at the Saturday afternoon contests in the gymnasium, and remarked upon the scarcity of competitors and lack of general interest. The Yale News has been quick to see and comment upon our indifference in this direction. Yet Yale has seen the benefit that could result from such a system, and, not to be outdone by us, has also instituted a series of weekly prize contests in high jumping and shot-putting. And it seems as if she would reap great benefit from the plan, whereas we seem to be gaining little...
...imaginative faculty that evolved this story assumes very extraordinary proportions. This article is noticeable in more ways than this. The perfect balance between its various parts, the delicacy with which the most exciting moments are rather touched than dwelt upon, and above all the excellence of the style and general treatment deserve high praise. The writer has his imagination, great as it is, under such control that it pictures only the dramatic, thus avoiding that retailing of what is simply extraordinary that is so common a fault with people who indulge their imagination very freely...
...Ingoldsby and His Legends" is an appreciative study of the writer of that remarkable book of tales. The writer points out with effect the main characteristics of Barham's poetry and of the general attitude of mind portrayed in it. These "legends" abound with some of the purest fun in the English language and it is extraordinary that they are comparatively so little known...
...Newspapers are conducted too much as if they were mere money-making ventures. There are some occupations which have so important an effect on the general prosperity that they cannot be carried on, with safety to the community, as if their sole object was to make money...