Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college will regret to learn of the sale of Hamilton Park to parties who will probably cut it up into building lots. The park comprises fifty-one acres, and for the past twenty years has served the college as a general athletic field. Several years ago efforts were made to buy it for the college, but the owners were foolish enough to demand an unreasonably large price, which, of course, the college was unwilling to pay, although it would have made a far more desirable athletic field than the one we now have. - Yale News...
...English literature by centuries, to give a thorough study of the different writers. As has been several times expressed at the lectures, the idea of the courses is to give men a knowledge of who the writers are, what period and school they belong to, and what their general work has been. With this foundation laid, students can, in their reading of after life, read more understandingly and also be able to choose authors better to their taste. A man is put upon a good footing with the literature of his own language. It is well to keep this...
Class Day, as the name implies, should be a day for the members of '86 to entertain their friends. There has been a very noticeable tendency in past years to convert this day into a general holiday for the public of all classes of Cambridge and Boston. That the many objectionable characters who have thronged the yard on Class Day evening should not be allowed among our relatives and friends, needs of course only to be asserted...
...advanced sheets of the Harvard Monthly for June prove that, excellent as was the Monthly for May, the best work of the students is coming to the light but slowly. The present issue, while less attractive than the last to the general reader, is without doubt the best exponent of Harvard undergraduate thought yet published. The leading article by Mr. C. P. Parker, entitled "Reminiscences of Oxford," relates concisely and sympathetically the writer's memories of Oxford undergraduate life. "A Ballad of a Windy Day" is not in Mr. Houghton's most successful vein. But many of the lines...
...this critical point in the contest for the inter-collegiate base-ball championship, a brief resume of the season so far may be of interest to those who have followed it only in a general...