Word: generally
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mighty general...
...GENERAL LISTER wishes to warn students against leaving valuables in the dressing-rooms of the Gymnasium. Three watches were found in one room a few days ago, and three pocket-books have been found on the floor...
...your history. Very well, sir, if you do write the thesis it won't add anything to your mark. If you don't, I shall take off twenty per cent. I mark according to the state of a man's health, the size of his head, and my general idea of the time he goes to bed. I give the highest mark to the man who gets worst used up by the course. You are looking altogether too well, and unless you become excessively pale by the end of the year, I shall feel obliged to condition you. Good...
...purpose the recipients of scholarships are necessary agents. The desire for an education - the first and essential condition of success in its attainment - is often present when the time and means needed are wanting to men best fitted by natural endowment to use such an acquisition to the greatest general good. To such men our donors turn, asking them to aid in extending the beneficent influences of education. "We have means," say they, "you have the natural endowments; together we can accomplish what we have most at heart, singly we must all fail." Is assistance given in this spirit...
...have received scholarships is a roll of honor. The successful ones are the men who have overcome sharp competition by force of superior ability; they are men in whom have been found parts and powers worthy of recognition and encouragement, not for themselves alone, but also for the general cause of education, whose furtherance they are especially fitted and bound, directly or indirectly, to secure...