Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...feature of our Nine's play was more praiseworthy than their excellent base running; there was no lagging or misjudgment in this respect. Morgan's catching was the brilliant feature of Yale's play. Though making a few unusual errors for him, his general play was very fine. Carter did not prove as effective as before, but he is always a hard man to hit. The rest played rather poorly, as the score will show. Their occasional brilliant plays were fully recognized, and applauded by the audience in an impartial and courteous spirit, which New Haven audiences would do well...
...Columbia has made Attorney-General Devens an LL.D...
...same performance is gone through with. If he meets a small boy in the street, the small boy gracefully touches his cap. The people who have been most intimately connected with this reform movement have naturally felt some delicacy in having it noised abroad and made the subject of general comment until the success of their experiment was fully assured. Judging, however, from the results above given, I think that they have every reason to be sanguine for the future...
...call attention to an article on French reading for the summer, which we are enabled to publish through the kindness of Professor Bocher. To those who appreciate the good training in French which general reading furnishes, the suggestion by such an authority of good books for their perusal will be invaluable...
...Trinity Tablet has just discovered that Herr Joachim has been made Oxford Professor of Music. It is sufficiently absurd to mention this fact of musical and general interest in a column headed "At other Colleges," but to do this two months behind time is certainly adding insult to injury...