Word: generalizations
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Through a mistaken idea, football followers, who are not acquainted with inside football, have the impression that anything except the play of the big eastern teams must be erratic. While this is not true in general, especially is it not true of Centre College, which owes its success to date of cleverly executed plays which are absolutely sound in principle. Defensively the Centre College eleven plays up to the standards and ideals of the bigger eastern colleges. It would be the worst possible folly to conclude that Centre College would not prove a worthy adversary to the University team...
...hear Governor Cox, the crowd is described as "one of the largest that ever packed the Union." The expression is well chosen. Perhaps the amount of "packing" to which we will submit is a gauge of our enthusiasm; but it is certain that whenever a mass meeting of any general interest is held, we go to the Union and get "packed." The football and various other mass meetings of last year were an example of this...
...drear as they have been painted. Of course the pictures and reports are correct, but the occurrences themselves are fewer and less alarming than the scareheads would seem to indicate; and it is only the frequent and often-repeated publication of these few occurrences that has led to the general impression that Italy is hopelessly revolutionized...
...partnership plan between labor and capital; shops where the workers as well as the directors have a vote on matters concerning the management of the business and receive their share of the profit. It is this condition--a condition that is sensible, just, and, in these days of general education, inevitable--that has been brought about by Italy's much-heralded "uprising." Instead of terrorism, there is peace; instead of idleness, there is labor; instead of restlessness and oppression there is stability and co-operation. The Italian manufacturers have acted wisely in being amenable to concession and arbitration...
That national institution, the Ziegfeld Follies, arrived for its annual visit to Boston on Monday night. And with a few exceptions, the 1920 edition contains the same manner of entertainment as its 13 predecessors; the general standard has been maintained in most of the elements of the piece. Of course there is no pretense at a plot, but then one does not attend the Follies with the expectation of finding one. The principal thing is the chorus, and the chorus is "there" in more ways than...