Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HARVARD COLLEGE LOTTERY."The subscribers, appointed managers of the above lottery, pursuant to an act of the General Court of this Commonwealth, having given bonds for the faithful discharge of that trust, respectfully present the public with the following scale of prizes...
...public and the interest of the University have been consulted. It is worthy the attention of adventurers that the highest prize is nearly double in value to any that has been drawn in this Commonwealth for many years past. The managers solicit the patronage of the public in general, and of the friends of literature and the University in particular; and, considering the object of the lottery, anticipate their liberal attendance...
...make the day as successful as possible, no visitor must be allowed to experience the slightest inconvenience, disappointment, or embarrassment. Although certain general arrangements can be made to lighten individual responsibility, the success of the day must largely depend on the tact and forethought of each student...
...system which are still discussed; as, for example, whether this course or that be a desirable one; whether this system unduly favor the classics, the modern languages, philosophy, history, or science; whether the choice of the individual student be oftenest determined by sound or trivial consideration; and whether any general advice as to choice of studies could be profitably given by the Faculty. . . . . The average student, with the help of his instructors, friends, and natural advisers, makes a more judicious selection of studies for himself than the Faculty could make for him, with any knowledge which they are likely...
...when the reasons are known which caused Harvard to decline it (the conditions which Columbia felt that the acceptance of her challenge for last year had given her strength to insist upon), the action of the Executive Committee in settling the matter as they have will, we think, meet general approval...