Word: generals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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SEMINARY ON AIMS AND METHODS OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY AND TEACHING, Topic; "The Duty of the Philosophical Teacher to his Community in General." Professor Royce. Emerson...
...host of arguments for the broadening and strengthening of secondary athletics often consider merely the spring and fall sports. The advantages of more general participation during these seasons are so obvious that the discussion is now aimed almost entirely toward discovering the best means of promoting these scrub contests. The winter sports, however, seem to have been somewhat neglected...
...particularly interesting to members of the University owing to the unusually large number of Harvard graduates who are to play a prominent part in them. The conferences of the various societies will, as usual, consist in the reading of original papers by prominent members, followed by an informal general discussion. Another important features will be the continuance of the system of round tables established in the past two years, which consists in the division of the delegates to the general conference into smaller groups, for the purpose of facilitating informal discussion and argument...
...failings. If jokes are to appear once in so often, one cannot wait for them to "just grow" like Topsy; they must be manufactured. If there is little to suggest them, they must be forced. If there is dearth of local picturesqueness, they must go afield to life in general. Moreover, it is only fair to the present number to admit that there are some good touches among the wealth of the commonplace. "Phrases from Novels" (p. 200), the dernier cri of the Freshman's welcome home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances...
...anything, an irrepressible, sensitiveness to incongruities, and contradictions in things, unspirited, be it added, by any immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial in accent. The joke-in-general is a last despairing cry. The latter requirement, however, demands more than the humorous eye: there must be oddities-rough edges in tradition, custom, manners, personalities to catch it. Here it is that the Lampoon is at a disadvantage. Life with us is too decent orderly, conventional, grown...