Word: generalizers
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...Junior Class. When the year began it was the fashion to condemn '82 in almost every way and in almost every department. '82 had no scholarship, no athletic men, no pride in class, or individual reputation. The only praise that was given was that in theatricals, singing, and general good fellowship it was above the average. This feeling in the University was perceived by '82, and its injustice was resented. A determination and tacit agreement to show themselves in their true light consciously or unconsciously influenced '82 from the beginning of its Junior year. The fruits of this determination have...
...undoubtedly suffered by the temporary loss of Professors Shaler and J. P. Cooke; but this is unavoidable, and there remains no ground for complaint. But it is very easy to criticise, and somewhat ungracious, perhaps, at the present time. We can only say that the Elective Pamphlet in general displays the same merits and demerits as did its predecessor of last year...
...protested that Jocasta would look like a man if she had no train, that Greek music was luckily irrecoverable, that whatever the acoustic properties of the theatre of Dionysus may have been, a chorus of fifteen would never sound well in the theatre of the Harvard Didascaleium, and in general that we must not make the play ridiculous by intruding the obsolete. But those who have had the good fortune to be present at the performance of Tuesday or Thursday must admit that if the echoes from Sanders made Sophocles turn in his grave, it was with a sigh...
...huge football, which is the mote that dims the eyes of the Jersey princes. But it avails little to say what a man is not. In an infinity we cannot use elimination; what is more to the point, when we are on a special subject, we must not generalize. As we have already said, the Harvard man has no distinctive characteristics in the sense that men of other colleges have. He is patriotic - in a degree. He is blase - in a degree. He is a man of one idea - with a few more added. "Nihil nimis," and not "nimis" even...
...waste-baskets contain! Undergraduate poets seem to have a poor command of language, and this gives rise to repetitions, and gives an air of awkwardness and carelessness to many of their compositions; we often find words put in merely for rhymes or to fill out the stanza, and a general lack of careful revision is painfully evident. I have noticed that the last stanza, - often the last line of the last stanza, - contains the worst faults in the piece, as though the "divine afflatus" had all escaped before the poet reached his period...