Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spring in order to give those men who do not make their class crews a chance to row regularly in an eight: they are expected to supply extra men for the class crews if need arises, to row a special race of their own, and to arouse a more general interest in rowing in the University. There are plenty of candidates out to make a creditable showing if they are taught to row, and the success of the new organization now depends wholly on whether or not good coaches are found. All interested in rowing would be sorry...
...games that every one can play and most men can become proficient in it in a short time. It gives good exercise, requires activity and acuteness, and tests the powers of endurance. It seems strange that the game is not taken up more by colleges in general. It can be played as scientifically as tennis and similar games...
...working earnestly for the past month or more. The usual routine of hard reading and practice debates, together with conference with Calendar, Mixter, Virtue and Myers of the Graduate School has been gone through with, and the work at present is merely the elaboration of speeches, and exercise in general rebuttal...
...Dunster street, one sunny room for a club table; also first class meals at the general tables...
Yesterday afternoon the 'Varsity baseball squad practiced out doors again for the first time in nearly two weeks. The weather was too cold and the ground was too heavy for very good work but the men as a whole did very creditably. The most noteworthy fault was an almost general tendency to overthrow...