Word: generality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are seven Japanese students at Yale College, where they are general favorites, and one of the brighest of them is Shinkichi Shigerri, who is only ninety pounds in weight and about four feet tall-or, rather, short. He will graduate with honors at the approaching commencement, but will not go back to Japan...
...Annual Reports of the Secretaries and Corresponding Members of the International Committee indicating the present condition of the work in all parts of the United States and Canada. Full statistical reports of the American Associations, including the College, Railroad, German, Colored and Indian Departments. Names of 700 general secretaries and other paid officers; members of International and State Committees; number and value of Association buildings; statistical summary of the whole field; list of Associations in foreign countries; and name and post-office address of every association in America...
...threat of the Yale faculty to abolish all intercollegiate contests in the future has created a great deal of excitement among the students. It is tacitly understood, however, that as the faculty do not in any way object to the contests in themselves but to the general disturbances resulting from a victory, if the students will pledge themselves to restrain their ardor in the celebrations, the faculty will let the matter drop. In order to insure the continuance of all intercollegiate games, the students have themselves taken the proposition in hand and have set about organizing a special college police...
...that able historian. Perhaps the most interesting article in this number is that by Ellen Terry Johnson, called "The Queen Behind the Throne." It is a short sketch of a wonderful woman, the Princess des Ursins, the Madame de Maintenon of Spain. The writer enters into details which general histories have not space for, and the result is an admirable work. Among other articles presented are "A Southern Planter" and "American Fiction...
...examination papers will present three or four disputed questions of sufficiently varied and general interest to enable each student to treat one of them. Accompanying each topic will be a syllabus of the evidence, pro and con, upon which the controversy rests; and from this syllabus a brief must be constructed and an argument elaborated to sustain the proposition and meet the objections presented...