Word: generalizer
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...have we a word to say about the general management of the race. The judges and committees who could not tell which boat won, whether Wesleyan or Amherst was second, the order or time of the last boats, and who left the flag on the western bank to be placed by some third person at the last moment, present a picture of mismanagement too deplorable to need any comment. They were appointed to decide the race, however close; the fact that any of these questions have arisen proclaims their inability to fill the positions assigned them...
...that the result of the races was a great disappointment to us would be but a slight expression of the general feeling. To have the cup dashed from our lips when it so nearly touched them makes the defeat the harder to bear. But in such a defeat there is no disgrace, no blame to be attached to any one, as all who saw Harvard's last, grand burst of speed must acknowledge...
...important, though not very prominent, feature in this oration was Mr. Adams's satirical allusion to the proneness of men to forget or despise the teachings of experience. However well merited any general censure in this regard is, the orator had no occasion to complain for himself; the earnest attention his thoughts received and the general commendation afterwards given to them proving well enough that, if precepts are more eagerly inculcated by younger men, from no lips do they fall with a deeper impression than from those of the venerable statesman...
...evils are these: First, cramming. It is true any vague objection to a way of study is generally expressed by calling it cramming. But though it is doubtful or false that a prolonged grind for an examination in which the student gets a general understanding of his subject is mentally destructive, no one can question the danger of merely committing to memory a mass of details, both when general relations are not grasped by the student's own efforts, and also when they are given to him as they are in a syllabus. Cramming of this kind certainly does...
...right of control over the other; at a meeting of neither can business be transacted binding the other; neither is responsible for the debts of the other. It is admitted that the Freshman race will be under the control of the Regatta Committee; it is also true that in general the officers of the U. B. C. often advise the members of the Freshman crew, and make arrangements for their training and races; but these things are done by tacit consent and not by prerogative. The right to refuse to be bound by such arrangements belongs to the Freshmen...