Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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These complaints, in general, are not especially violent, but they are decidedly stupid and monotonous, and the Faculty, if they read them, must be tired out by their frequency; hence, if they are ever written with any other purpose than to fill up the columns of the paper, that frequency could well afford to be lessened. To us, many of the Faculty's doings seem blamable; but we cannot or will not justly appreciate their reasons for thus acting, and would it not be better to devote an occasional column to the good deeds of the body, rather than half...
...occupy two fifths instead of one fourth of the attention of the assembled company, a distinction utterly inconsistent with the democratic principles of the community would be made in its favor. The Class-Day Committee, therefore, finding themselves in a dilemma of which neither horn promises to afford general satisfaction, have been considering the expediency of altogether excluding the Freshmen from the exercises...
...That an average of 50 per cent must be obtained for the whole course, and that the average for Senior year must be 50 per cent, all know. But many students have been in doubt whether it was necessary to obtain this mark on each study, or whether a general average was all that was required. We have the authority of the Registrar to state that the latter is the case. A Senior who obtains less than 40 per cent on any elective is by the rules of the College conditioned, and of course loses his degree. But the required...
...general verdict is, and to this conclusion the writer is driven by the fate of several previously rejected essays on "Etruscan Philology," that people want to be amused, and take the papers chiefly for that end. Of course there are different tastes in amusement; for example, I should suppose that any one who could give such an inane opinion of one of the most delicate satires that has graced the college papers, as F. G. does of the "Religion of the Mound-Builders," would probably find his sense of humor gratified by a table of logarithms, while there are others...
...Cornell Review is furiously indignant with the Brunonian for having "plagiarized" from a Cornell paper the following sentence: "Perhaps there is no subject more thoroughly discussed among thinking students than general reading." The startling originality of the idea precludes the possibility, according to the Review, of its having occurred...