Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer in general charge of the examinations...
...unsuccessful." The fundamental defect has been that "coaches of limited experience, who may be either unobservant or obtuse, can override on the spot the advice of the trainer and physicians." "The remedies are the subordination of coaches to an expert in training or to a medical adviser, and the general adoption of more reasonable views about al training...
...invested funds of the University now amount to $8,526,813.67, an increase of $5,120,160.24 in twenty years. The general fall in the rate of interest during the past year has embarrassed many departments of the University which depend upon the income of permanent funds. During the year 1895 96 the amount of gifts and bequests to the University was $243,791.05. "During the same period at least five American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments. If the primacy of Harvard University among American institutions of education...
...consulted on this question,- of the classes of '41, '46, '50, '61, '64, '68, '81, '83, and '84,- only two favored the proposed change; the rest were unanimous in their belief that a longer celebration than has hitherto been customary would inevitably be more elaborate, more expensive, and, in general, such that the poor man would be sharply divided from the rich; and Class Day would be no longer the dear and beautiful festival which it has been for more than fifty years...
Also two seats at general table...