Word: generally
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...General Review of Fall Rowing...
...were inclined to make light of the statements made frequently last spring of the general lack of attention to collegiate duties on the mornings of football games will be interested in the announcement of the Student Council published on another page. The figures show an alarming amount of cutting of twelve o'clock appointments on the mornings of the Carlisle and Dartmouth games. There was an average of sixteen cuts in the ten courses held at twelve o'clock on the day of the Indian game, and an average of almost twenty-three cuts on the day of the Dartmouth...
Professor James resigned from active work in January, 1907, after having been a professor at Harvard since 1872. The best-known course which he conducted in the University was Philosophy D, on general problems in philosophy. Upon his resignation he was made "professor emeritus," and since then he has devoted much of his time to writing and lecturing. He is the author of "Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking," a work which has attracted wide attention both in this country and in Europe...
...George von L. Meyer '79, Postmaster General of the United States, delivered a very interesting and instructive lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening. He advocated the extension of a general parcel post as necessary for our farmers, and a system of postal savings banks that would keep our money from being sent out of the country by ignorant immigrants...
...last two years he presided as Speaker of the House. Four years later Mr. Meyer was appointed American ambassador to Italy, a post which he filled until 1905. In that year, he became ambassador to Russia, and occupied the position till 1907, when he was recalled to become postmaster general in President Roosevelt's Cabinet...