Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEETING of the Executive Committee was held last Wednesday evening, and one or two points of general interest were discussed. After Mr. Weld, '76, had been elected to fill the position on the Regatta Committee, and Mr. Roberts, '71, and Mr. Heminway, '77, to be the two judges, the question as to whether or not a single-sculler should be sent to Saratoga was brought up. Harvard has been so feebly represented in this part of the Regatta during the past few years, that every one must feel that it is better to send nobody than...
...freely admitted. Investigation will show that a large part of the students pursue almost exclusively literary studies, leaving science and natural history to be learned at haphazard. All will admit the value of these studies in developing sides of our character and tastes which History, Philosophy, Mathematics, or the general study of literature necessarily fails to do. Acknowledging the value of Chemistry, Botany, and Geology, many a man of a literary penchant is deterred from electing them from fear of their taking up too much time; and thus on graduating from college is a perfect ignoramus in natural branches. This...
Instruction in these summer courses is given as follows: I. General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis; II. Quantitative Chemical Analysis; III. Determinative Mineralogy and Crystallography; IV. Phaenogamic Botany; V. Cryptogamic Botany; VI. Geology. For each of these the fee is $25, except VI., which, conducted with such success last year, is too well known to need any comment. Each course is to last six weeks; thus leaving six weeks to the student for a vacation of pure idleness, if he prefers. The importance of these courses cannot be overestimated, while their cheapness, considering their value, will form an attraction to many...
...BOOKS OF REFERENCE. - Information will be given as to the best grammars, dictionaries, and books of reference in general with which a student of the French language should be acquainted. The works themselves will be shown and tested in the class. Occasionally an hour will be devoted to the study of some difficult text, when those who wish to do so may take an active part in the lesson, using the books to look up embarrassing points, and thus learn to clear up for themselves not only difficulties of language but such as arise from insufficient knowledge of French usages...
...SPOKEN LANGUAGE. - Although the course will in general be rather theoretical than practical, some attention will be paid to the spoken language, the methods of learning it will be discussed, and an opportunity will be offered to acquire ease in understanding French, as the exercises in the last half-hour, and later in the course in the last hour, will be carried on wholly in French...