Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee to prepare for the bicentennial of Yale university has been appointed and includes three officers of the university, three members of the faculty, three members of the corporation, and twelve graduates. The committee will meet soon to lay out the general programme of work...
...evening seems to have had at least one practical result in the resolution passed asking the Faculty to appoint a committee to investigate the plans proposed. The opinion expressed by the speakers at the meeting was unanimous, that whatever plan is ultimately adopted at Harvard not only is the general principle of physical training as closely connected with mental efficiency, an enlightened one, but also that those who succeed in increasing the general health of their bodies as well as that of their minds, should receive credit...
Thus a committee appointed by the Faculty will be able to feel that not only is the general plan of adopting a course of physical training here, one which is approved by those who have considered the question carefully, but also that a course counting toward a degree would meet with favor. Further, Mr. Hemenway's liberal offer in guarantee of the expense that would be incurred in adding physical training to the University curriculum, greatly simplifies the matter, and will certainly help to hasten a decision...
...site the land now occupied by the old Naval Observatory, and who left a large endowment fund, which has been lost, through negligence on the part of the government. The object of this bill is to found an institution, which would obviate the necessity of foreign study. The present general movement in favor of the university was begun in 1891 by the appointment of a committee, of which Chief Justice Fuller is chairman. As the Senate bill only carries with it an appropriation of a few thousand dollars, for preliminary organization, a committee, composed of representative women, has been formed...
...announced in another column, this evening's Physical Training Conference has been arranged with the idea of promoting undergraduate discussion of the subject. There has of late been a growing feeling among certain graduates that some more general plan of encouraging physical development here might be more than justified by the practical good resulting from it. This sentiment was expressed in the report of the Committee on Physical Training, Athletic Sports, and Sanitary Condition of Buildings, to the Board of Overseers. To quote from the report:- "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play...