Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...several good and very original drawings. The picture showing "Lampy's Patent for Future Weld Races" is extremely timely and suggestive. The centre page, "Which is the American Girl We Hear so Much About?" consists of imitations of the American girls drawn by different well-known artists, and the general effect is certainly striking. The third picture in the series "As Others See Us," shows a row of solemn-looking students marching up to the college pump, each one holding tight a copy of the "Voice...
Although there have been no lack of entries in recent years for the Boylston Prize elocution competitions, the small attendance of college men at the final contests, seems to show that anything like general interest in them has subsided...
...Ward Nicholas Boylston, these competitions were among the more important events in each college year. The ushers were always appointed from the Junior, by the First Marshal of the Senior Class, and served also as Junior ushers on Class Day. In fact there was not only general interest shown, but every effort was made to keep that interest alive; and, although it is not now realized by the undergraduates, many of the older inhabitants of Cambridge and Boston still watch for the notices of Boylston Prize Contests...
...Burrell, lately surgeon-general in the state militia, spoke upon the personal care of volunteers in campaign. He said in substance that the ability to make forced marches and to win decisive victories depends no less upon the health of the individual soldier than upon the maintenance of good discipline. The number of men killed in a war is always less than the number of those who die of disease. In the Crimean war the proportion was one to twelve; in our Civil War, however, only one to two. To keep the troops in perfect physical condition is the great...
Matthew Lowrie '98, lives in Warrior's Mark, Pa. He also prepared at Lawrenceville, graduating in the class of '94. In Clio Hall he won the Freshman Declamation Contest and Sophomore Prize Debate. Last year he won first prize in the general competitive debate in Hall, was chosen by his class to be its Washington's Birthday Orator, and won the Junior Oratorical Contest at Commencement. This year he won the second disputation prize in the Baird Contest and has been elected Class Orator. He represented Princton in the recent Yale Debate and will represent Clio Hall in the Lynde...