Word: generality
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...useful as a reference book, and even interesting reading. Harvard has not lately taken great interest in secret fraternities, but the large number of these societies at other colleges must make Mr. Baird's work valuable to them. There are at present, in American colleges, forty-five general fraternities, thirteen local fraternities, and seven ladies' societies. Among the best-known societies, the Alpha Delta Phi has twenty-three chapters, and among its members are Rev. Phillips Brooks, Prof. James Russell Lowell, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and President Eliot; the Psi Upsilon has seventeen chapters, and among its members are Professors...
...most ambitious poetical effort we have met with this week, is an ode to the "Concord River," in the Tuftonian. The general effect is good, though marred somewhat by bad epithets and one or two unnecessary inversions. We would like to know what color a "blushing violet" is, and it seems as if the wrong deity had the adjective in the line...
...previous one. It is to be regretted that one section of the class did not sustain the Committee in their efforts to have no society candidates. It was perfectly evident that one society voted as an organized body for single candidates nominated as the candidates of that society. The general tone of the meeting, however, was very free from society feeling, and the number of candidates proposed for the marshal-ships, and places on the committees, from each of the other sections of the class, showed that they at least voted for the men they thought best fitted...
...course left for us to follow. As a matter of fact, the editorial and letter in the Advocate not only did not exaggerate, but hardly put the case strongly enough. The particular points therein specified rest on the authority of more than one witness, and something more than a general denial is needed to disprove them...
...play of Princeton was characterized by fine passing to the half-backs, and by a general discipline prevailing throughout the team, which made their playing more effective than ours. The utmost good-feeling was displayed on either side, - an agreeable contrast to the treatment experienced by our team at New Haven. The teams were as follows...