Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spared no pains to make their investigation absolutely complete, and their efforts have been remarkably successful. They have obtained a frank statement from nearly every undergraduate in college, of the amount of time he devotes to athletics; and of his opinion in regard to the relation athletics bear to general college work. The value of such an investigation is apparent at once...
...Technology announces the discontinuance of its school of mechanic arts, by the notice inserted in the daily papers to the effect that "no students will hereafter be received as candidates for the certificates of the high or preparatory school known as 'the School of Mechanic Arts' in this institute." General F. A. Walker says the school never had an endowment, and had been able to exist only by reason of the high rates of tuition...
...simply the result of one's finding himself set down in the whirl of events without an understanding of their causes; and to counteract this result a course in the topics of the day is needed. The field of the course would, to be sure, be changeable, but in general it should cover the history and present statutes of pending movements and changes in American and European politics. Beside this it should include a discussion of any subjects of general interest, for example the labor movement. Only by some such training, however acquired, does a man feel himself able intelligently...
...History of Yale Athletics from 1840-1888," by Richard M. Hurd, Yale '88. The book gives a complete account of every contest in rowing, foot-ball, base-ball, track athletics and tennis which Yale has had with other colleges, and is a decided credit to the author. As a general thing, books on athletics contain a confusing tangle of dates, names, anecdotes and statistics; but Mr. Hurd has separated everything in such a systematic manner as make the book particularly attractive to the reader. The accounts of contests are concise and clear, and the tables of statistics, records and facts...
...Associations in America and 3804 in the world. The American Associations have a membership of 175,000; they own buildings valued at $5,609,263, and have a total property of $7,261,658. Last year they expended $1,181,338 in local work and $104,946 in general work. Seven hundred and fifty-two men are devoting their entire time to the local, State and international work as secretaries and assistants. There are twenty-three State Committees that employ one or more travelling secretaries, and the Innational Committee's Secretarial force numbers fourteen. Seventy-seven of the Associations...