Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...admitted that the action of the last convention had been childish in the extreme; but he thought that the meeting should consider three points: First, Is it right for Harvard to withdraw? Second, Would it be better for her to withdraw? Third, Would it not be better for the general rowing interests of all the colleges that she should withdraw...
...have received a well-written contribution on the Index, but through lack of space are unable to print it in these columns. The general tone of the article is by no means flattering to the editors of the Index, and the writer comments severely upon several features in the book which are justly censurable. He complains that the Index is published simply for the purpose of making money, and not to provide students with correct lists of the members of the different societies and accurate records of the athletic contests; deplores the lack of any good management in the book...
...shall have a very commodious, convenient, and handsome boat-house. For the last few years nothing has so dampened the spirits of oarsmen and kept so many from rowing as the wretched condition of the boat-house. The removal of this drawback will, we hope, add to the general interest in boating. To keep everything in order hereafter, and to pay the running expenses, certain rules of the H. U. B. C. will be enforced in the spring more strictly than they have been hitherto. The running expenses will amount each year to a little more than five hundred dollars...
...first trial as to give some recompense to the tutor, whose work is increased by their carelessness or stupidity. If more such measures were introduced, if a system of fines should be substituted in part for the system of censure-marks, we believe that the result would give general satisfaction. We could then be allowed privileges which we should have to pay for in case we chose to enjoy them, and thus both the independence of the undergraduate and the income of the College would be increased...
...utter ignorance of the game) as somewhat miscellaneous and peculiar. There is 'Rope,' 'Flour,' and 'four Policemen,' who kept the ground, we may presume, on the occasion of the match on Jarvis Field. The bed-makers at Harvard appear to be called 'Goody,' as a term of general opprobrium or endearment...