Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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COMMENCEMENT Day at Harvard falls this year on Wednesday, June 28. General Thomas Sherwin will act as chief marshal, and James Russell Lowell will preside at the after-dinner exercises...
...purely in the light of an affair between the President and a society of limited membership, it is not a question to be discussed in a College paper; but there are many persons who consider that the matter - somewhat trivial in itself - nevertheless affects the relation between undergraduates in general and those who govern them. It is put beside several other incidents of a similar nature, and derives, in consequence, an importance which it would otherwise lack. It has been pronounced to mark a line of policy which the authorities intend to adopt - have, in fact, already adopted - towards...
...GRAMMAR. - The principles of French grammar will be explained, but elementary grammar as such will not be taught; that is, it will be taken for granted that the common forms and rules are known, but the reasons of various changes of form and the general laws that have given rise to special rules of syntax will be studied...
...ETYMOLOGY. - Some attention will be paid to the derivation of French words; and the general principles of Historical French Grammar will be explained...
Matthews is now rowing with W. F. Weld, '76, stroke, S. Perkins, L. S. S., E. T. Hastings, '76, T. W. Preston, '79, W. Sheafe, '79, J. Q. A. Brett, '77, bow. The crew work quite well together, they pull a fast stroke, and there is a general tendency in the boat to roll...