Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...good one, because it brings the average mark obtained on it below fifty per cent, but only when it covers nearly all the most important parts of the course, and is a fair test of the student's knowledge. Finally, to return to the former metaphor, a general would scarcely mass his forces on a point which is not even in the country he is defending; nor can a student imagine that he should prepare himself thoroughly and exclusively on a subject which is not even mentioned, as belonging to the course, in the College Catalogue...
...resolution was passed expressing disapproval of intercollegiate literary contests; but inasmuch as there was a difference of opinion as to the object of the convention, and it was thought by many that it might be intended to discuss in general the advisability of the proposed contests, it was voted to send delegates. Messrs. Dyer of '74, Richmond of '74, and Warren of '75 were accordingly elected, and provision was made that, in case of the disability of any delegate to attend the convention, he should have power to appoint a substitute. In conclusion, it was voted that the delegates should...
...employed very profitably; for a man can give more time to some favorite elective, and become far more expert in science, or critical in the languages, without making a hermit of himself, with bolted door and closely drawn green curtains. Again, much more time is given for general reading, a branch of knowledge which most of us have shamefully neglected. Many have availed themselves of the chance to dispense with several of the required branches, and many more will probably do so next year...
This quotation needs no comment. The technical, almost quibbling manner in which the classics are sometimes treated is in danger of running their study into the ground; and unless a man pursues his reading outside of the class-room, even a four years' election of classics will afford no general idea of this field of literature...
Handsome prizes will be offered, and the crews and their friends will without doubt, following the general rule, be unanimous in voting Saratoga Lake the best course in the United States, and the citizens of Saratoga the most amiable people to whose hospitality they were ever confided. It is true that the New England crews will have to travel somewhat farther, but this objection ought certainly to be overweighed by the superiority of the Saratoga course over that of New London...