Word: generality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reported that General Lister has in preparation a book on Athletics. The work is to be exhaustive, containing compilations from the best German and French treatises on the subject...
...student understands a subject himself, there is no danger of appearing ridiculous at the blackboard. It is true that comparatively few students take mathematics after the Freshman year. The cause, as it seems to me, is this: students come to college with a worse fit in mathematics, as a general thing, than any other subject, and the struggles against conditions in the Freshman year, in which too much mathematics is crowded, creates no sympathy for cosines and asymptotes. The fault, therefore, is primarily in the fitting schools. Having had the same "misfortune" as the writer in the Echo...
...desire to call attention again to the general practice of scratching matches on the black-walnut finish in the vestibule of Memorial Hall. Were the injury only temporary, a sense of propriety ought to suggest to the student that the use he is making of the building is one far different from that intended by the donors; but when one considers that the marks cannot be effaced, it then becomes a crime thus to disfigure the building. We hope, therefore, that there will be no occasion to refer again to the subject...
...another column will be found an article on the College Fund, in which the writer attempts to show that no one should feel under any obligation to contribute to it. We agree, in general, with the arguments there advanced. It seems to us very advisable that if there is to be a subscription in each class for the benefit of the College, that there should be no obligation upon any one, either by the force of public opinion or otherwise, to contribute to it. The Advocate has urged those who have "enjoyed the bounty of scholarships" to pay off part...