Word: generality
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FIELD MARSHAL.He shall have the general management and supervision of all meetings...
...GENERAL LISTER intends to give a lecture in a few months on "The Military Art in Ancient and Modern Times." In it he will give an account of many of his personal experiences...
After the election of officers Mr. Wright took the chair, and general business was discussed. A motion was made by Mr. Hooper, '80, and seconded, that an executive committee, consisting of the three officers of the Association, and of eight members selected by the officers from the four classes, two from each class, should have charge of the Association, and fix the time and place of the meetings; the eight members from the four classes to serve as stewards. The motion was carried without much debate, and the meeting adjourned...
...disagreeable when one has been up late the night before at a political or temperance meeting. The pretext on which it is rung, too, is a frivolous one. If a man insists on going to prayers, he can surely be awakened without rousing all the victims of catarrh and general indisposition, who are unable to attend. Why should all of us be awakened at the same moment? John Stuart Mill says that uniformity is a bad thing. This prayer-bell must be given up; it crushes out all individuality, and is a barbarous relic of the past...
...more than ordinarily moved in regard to a matter which such excellent base-ball authority as the Clipper as well as ourselves regarded as a foregone conclusion in our favor. To Captain Thayer we have only to reiterate our praises for his excellent services both as a general and as a player, and our thanks for the impetus and manly tone he has infused into base-ball at Harvard, notwithstanding the stumbling-blocks raised by the powers that be, and our heartiest wishes are that his successors may, for many generations, follow out as nearly as possible the admirable example...