Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...General Swift then spoke for a half an hour in his characteristic pointed manner, interspersing his remarks with numerous anecdotes. He said that there were two schools of temperance, the wet and the dry. He preferred the dry, as did Dickens' young lady on board the vessel in the case of the fifth lover who wouldn't jump overboard to save her, because he was the most practical. In taking a stand against liquor there were too heresies to be met. The personal heresy, where people of high standing used liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards...
...response to a very general request on the part of the students in Chemistry, the large laboratory is kept open until one o'clock on Saturday, instead of closing at eleven. It was no more than rational that so reasonable a demand on the part of the students should by speedily granted. This opportunity to do additional laboratory work will be gladly embraced by a large number of men who found the previous time too short...
...have from time to time noted the changes which have been made in the freshman crews; but have not as yet spoken of it critically, except in a general way. The candida have now been in training nea four months, and although their progress on the machines has been as rapid as is usual for freshman crews, there is one thing, and a most important thing, that they have not yet learned to do, that is to keep time at the chest-weights. This may seem a matter of slight consequence to the men; but they will learn that time...
Colonel Thomas W. Higginson and General Jonathan L. Swift, will address the Harvard Total Abstinence League Friday evening of this week at 7.30 o'clock...
...will be seen, the same general faults run straight through the boat. The whole crew should be very careful about the time, and should keep their arms perfectly straight. Then, too, they must remember to keep their shoulders down. But perhaps the most noticeable fault is the hang at the finish. The men, especially stroke, should come right forward at the end of each stroke...