Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...department of French offers several new and attractive courses. Professor Grandgent will give course 6c, a general view of French literature. Course 14, conducted by Dr. Marcon, will deal with French lyric poetry from Villon and the fifteenth century to the present time. Professor Bocher in courses 15 and 16 will treat respectively of French comedy and French tragedy during the 16th and 17th centuries. The latter course will not be given next year, but will be given in 1897-98. Courses 7, 9, 12 and 20a will be omitted, while courses 8, 10 and 20b will be given. Course...
...into the Cambridge parade with some sort of enthusiasm and to do their part to make the event, which is so eagerly looked forward to by citizens of Cambridge, a success. The decision about the wearing of caps and gows, though likely to detract somewhat from the general effect, will doubtless induce many more men to march. As was suggested by a correspondent a short time ago, it would be a good plan if the Seniors should agree to wear their regular Class Day gowns. It would not cost any more, and it would make the graduating class distinctive...
...will be of interest to those who have visited the Central American room in the Peabody Museum to know that there is now in press a general report on the explorations carried on by the Museum at Copan in Honduras during the years 1891-95. This report will form the first number of the Memoirs of the Peabody Museum, a large quarto publication. It will contain a general account of the several explorations with descriptions of the prominent monoliths and sculptures and a number of illustrations. These illustrations, some of which are in the text, and others in the form...
...large map accompanying the Memoir gives a general view of the ruins showing the position of the pyramids upon which stand the temples and other buildings, portions of which are covered with sculptures. Extending to the top of one of these pyramids is a stairway about forty feet wide and one hundred feet high. The front of each step of this stairway is elaborately carved with hieroglyphs and here and there a human figure...
...report of the Museum explorations is compiled from the field notes of John G. Owens, Marshall H. Saville and George Byron Gordon, who at different times have been in charge of the explorations. In this first number the object is simply to give a general account of the ruins, the plan being to publish a series of memoirs on special topics relating to them...