Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...VERDANT GREEN," "Tom Brown," and "Five Years at an English University," afford any amount of information about the chapels, dining-halls, "quads," and student life in general at Oxford. But I do not remember that any one of them gives the best time made in the quarter-of-a-mile race or the one-hundred yard dash; and this is the point I wish to come to, namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they...
...meeting adjourned until Monday next, Oct. 29, at the same time and place. It has been ascertained that Peabody breech-loading rifles can be obtained from the State in exchange for the old muzzle-loaders, now in use by the corps, upon the proper requisitions being made. General Lister will exert every possible influence to place good arms in the hands of the corps, in the success of which he takes the liveliest interest. Drills of the Freshman company will be held every evening next week except Monday. The Sophomore drills will be announced as soon as determined upon...
...MEETING of the Harvard Rifle Corps will be held on Monday, 15th inst. at 6.30 P. M. in the Gymnasium. Freshmen desirous of joining their class company should attend, when every information respecting the origin and objects of the institution will be given by General Lister...
...returned to Cambridge; and after consulting him, steps will be taken to ascertain what position Yale means to maintain in regard to the groundless and insulting charges she has seen fit to make against the referee of our last race with her. We think that in this matter the general sentiment of Harvard is as follows : Yale is, above all other colleges, the one with which we wish to row, and in order to secure a race with her, we would be willing to do everything and submit to everything that gentlemen could be expected to do or to submit...
...general report that the Lampoon has altogether ceased to be a college paper turns out to be quite false. It is true that several of the editors are no longer undergraduates. At the end of last year it appeared that there were so few men in college who were at once able and willing to join the staff of the Lampoon, that either the paper must be dropped, or the old editorial board must continue to manage it. The latter alternative was chosen, and the paper remains in the same hands in which it was last year. The popularity which...