Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...abuse prevalent here has long been a source of very general annoyance, and I have often thought that it ought to be brought before the College public through one of the papers. Still, it hardly seemed sufficiently important to call for an article; but I notice that in your last two issues you have established a department of "Correspondence," and here, I think, is the suitable place to make my complaint...
...club system was organized two years ago for the purpose of arousing a more general interest in boating, and for a time accomplished its object. The novelty soon wore away, and, judging from the present condition of the different clubs, unless something is soon done, our boat clubs will exist more in name than in fact. I shall not discuss the question whether this change from class-races to the present system was an advisable one or not, but I think that the general indifference manifested this fall might be bettered by a little exertion on the part...
...GENERAL THOMAS SHERWIN will act as chief marshal, and James Russell Lowell will preside at the afternoon exercises on Commencement...
SOPHOMORES who wish to anticipate the history of the first half-year will prepare themselves in Freeman's General Sketch, Chaps. V. - XIV., inclusive...
...unless he has a "corner" on the subject, his elective may be abandoned. But for this very reason, his influence, wherever it is felt, will enter the more deeply; for there is no compulsion in the reception of it. And yet, I ask, is there evidence of a general influence of this kind supplanting the former parental authority? Are there no signs of the laxity of unrestraint, with no stronger guide than the undeveloped character which youth itself supplies unaided...