Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meet Yale and the other colleges next month and to furnish the necessary financial support for the club. There seems to be an impression in Cambridge that there are a few well known players who are practically sure of the team and there is consequently no need of a general competition. This is, of course, a mistaken idea: Yale, especially, is unusually strong this year and if Harvard is to win the tournament all of the golf players must co-operate in trying for the team; even if a man does not make the team he can do something...
...only to strengthen class spirit and give men a chance to appreciate each other, but also to deepen the feeling of loyalty to the University. At every Junior dinner there has been regret that the class has not met in such a way before and a general wish that class dinners were annual. It rests with '99 to make them annual...
...Yale debate. He said that in recent debates, especially in this year's Yale debate, there has been a total failure of the opposing sides to really meet in debate, to face and answer each other's arguments. Applying the lesson of the Yale debate to debating in general, Professor Taussig said that if possible a man should meet an opponent squarely on his own line of attack and confute him. There is no use in twisting his statements and then meeting them. Especially in the last retorts one should not be committed to what he is going...
...founded in 1894, had its origin as a result of the influence of the late Mr. George William Curtis, and was favored by Professor Norton, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Mr. Carl Schurz, and others. Although it attracted a good deal of attention at first, there has not been a very general interest in its affairs this year. There are, however, reasons why such a club should have a good backing in this University: not only are many of the leaders in the National Civil Service Reform movement Harvard men, but we are repeatedly told that the graduates of the great universities...
...Phillips was the city solicitor of Salem, and in the latter year, at the age of 34, was elected attorney-general of Massachusetts. In 1866 he was made attorney-general of the Hawaiian Government, an office which made him one of the four cabinet ministers...