Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...candidate who permits electioneering, and by electioneering I mean the presentation of one candidate's qualifications at the expense of another's, forfeits his right to represent his class. When seven men are nominated for one office, it is manifestly an easy matter for a ticket to overthrow the general will of a class. There are not two parties in this election; there are seven representative men who have been honored with a trust. Not a man is standing for a principle or a platform; each is being judged solely by the efficient personality which his election will place...
Professor Otto Jespersen of the University of Copenhagen, who is now visiting professor from Denmark at Columbia University, will give a lecture on "Logic and Grammar" in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor Jespersen is an eminent authority in English and in general linguistic science. He has already published a number of treatises on English case form and construction...
...That the committee prepare general rules for the choice of electives, to be approved by the Faculty, based upon the principle that a student must take a considerable amount of work in some one field, and that the rest of his courses must be well distributed...
...That at the end of his first year in College each student be required to present to his adviser a plan of study for the remainder of his College course; and that the plan must conform to the general principles laid down by the committee, unless the committee is satisfied that the student is earnest and has sufficient grounds for departing from those principles...
...Edgar H. Wells '97, Secretary for Appointments, and general secretary of the Alumni Association, left Cambridge last night for new York, whence he will sail this afternoon on board the "Adriatic" for Europe. Stopping for a short time in London, he will continue by boat to Cairo, Egypt, and from there will journey for some distance up the Nile valley. On the return trip he will stop in Paris, and probably will spend several days further in London. The trip is intended primarily as a vacation for Mr. Wells. He is expected to return to the University about the last...