Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HORRORSCOPE OF PROBABILITIES FOR COMMONS TODAY. - Breakfast light: followed by a general rise of appetite indicating a fish-dinner (probably Smelt-s), accompanied by a heavy storm of imprecations and a rapid fall of bodily temperature. Appetite steadily rising. Supper still lighter and very moist (cold water). Prospects for the evening, - General fall of sandwiches at Carl...
...Chapel, and we think has not marred the beauty of its proportions. The windows of stained glass, each of which bears' upon it the University motto, "Christo et Ecclesiae," admit a very soft and mellow light. The fresco work, though of a plain and unassuming style, greatly improves the general appearance...
...first year of the existence of this great blessing to the undergraduates is now drawing near its close, it may perhaps be a fitting occasion for offering a few remarks upon its management and general condition. In the first place, the amount of gas-light shed upon the Boston newspapers at the end of the room is sadly deficient. It is probably the belief of the managers that this class of reading loses its interest long before there is need of artificial light upon it; but the majority of those who visit the reading-room in the earlier part...
...their money or their good wishes. There is no disparagement in saying that the Advocate does not cover the whole ground; indeed, it does not pretend to. The perception of these facts has induced the Editors of the Magenta to offer a new paper to their fellow-students. Its general plan is as follows...
There will be occasional criticisms upon the methods of instruction and government followed here. We may differ from those who teach us, but in every case we shall be careful not to say anything unworthy ourselves or them. Wild and general accusations, in which the plainest thing is the author's bitterness, do not get or deserve much attention. But to a carefully considered, temperate article nobody ought to object; for, though its ideas are unsound, they are less likely to be harmful if stated fully and clearly than if left to spread through the college in the disjointed form...