Word: generally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hall starting today and continuing until Saturday, from 9 until 5 o'clock daily. The architecture exhibition will be held in the large drawing-room upstairs, and the landscape architecture exhibition will be in the library of the school of landscape architecture. The exhibition will be open to the general public...
...literature courses most men do not read literature; they read about literature. They take their general point of view from the instructor's lecture; and before the examinations they devour histories of literature, and learn the general nature of the work they are supposed to have read. In many cases, too, the examinations are such that this sort of information will enable one to obtain a good mark. Thus it is not a definite and personal knowledge and appreciation of literature which is the rule, but a vague and second-hand idea of its nature...
...bridge, a tablet on the right hand column bears the following dedication, which explains the use of the scholar and soldier symbols: "This bridge was built in memory of Nicholas Longworth Anderson, graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1858; Adjutant-Colonel, Brevet-Brigadier and Major-General of volunteers in the Civil War. To a father by a son." Above this tablet, on the north side is the eagle, the soldier's habit, shield, helmet and banner all welded in bronze forms. On the opposite side of the column is a similar symbol composed of bronze forms...
...this is the general aim of the laboratory it is not strange that startling "popular" discoveries have not taken place there. Nevertheless, several important ones have been made, whose significance can only be estimated. Most notable among these is the discovery that what has heretofore been considered the unit of the universe, the "element," may in itself be a complex substance. This was brought out in the determination of the atomic weight of "radio-active" lead, when specimens of this element were found to have a perfectly definite atomic weight which differed from that of other specimens of ordinary lead...
...field of languages and literature come nineteen volumes in the Harvard Oriental Series, edited under the general direction of Professor C. R. Lanman; the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, and Romance Languages; and many other works on literature and philology...