Word: generalisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Wise left the Virginia Military Institute in 1864 and enlisted in the Confederate Army where he served as second lieutenant until General Lee's surrender. He was the bearer of the last despatch from the general to Jefferson Davis. In 1867 he received his degree from the University of Virginia; fourteen years later he was appointed United States district attorney for the Eastern district of Virginia, by President Arthur, and was also elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket as representative at large. After his defeat in the election for governor of the state in 1885, he moved...
Each governor has invited as delegates the senators, congressmen, lieutenant-governor, attorney-general, president of the Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives in his particular state. To this gathering will be added special delegates selected at large by the several governors. President Eliot is to attend as a special delegate from Massachusetts. Governor Curtis Guild '81 will act as chairman and F. L. Dean '88 as secretary of the conference...
...Wise's life is as interesting as it is varied. While an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as second lieutenant until General Lee's surrender in 1865. He carried the last message from Lee to President Davis. After the war, Mr. Wise returned to the University and was graduated in 1867. Fourteen years later he was elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket, soon after he ran for governor, but was defeated. Since 1885 he has been engaged in the practice of law in New York and has written...
...less than most Lampoons. Some of the jokes and poems are funny and cleverly done, but they seem no more appropriate to the Lampoon than they would be to a publication of similar end and nature in any other college, or for that matter to any "funny paper" in general. One realizes perhaps that jokes are being cracked at the expense of college life, but of what college life one gets no inkling, unless indeed it be just that vagueness and lack of local stamp which stamps...
...Field '11, fullback, is weakest in his lack of experience. He hits the line hard and is not easily tripped up. He has been improving steadily in his ability to run back punts through a broken field and in the general handling of the kicks. His work on the secondary defense is good