Word: generalizers
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...passed each other, the old gentleman asked, seemingly in jest, "Well, what do you want now? The President replied in the same tone, "A new Law School." A few days after the President received an invitation to lunch. After taking lunch alone with his host, they sat talking about general college matters until the subject of the Law School was brought up. When asked what amount would be needed for the new building, the President named one hundred thousand. His host excused himself for a moment, and soon returned to the room with papers which gave "one hundred thousand dollars...
...meets with such mishaps; they in no way concern the public. Real grievances, in nine cases out of ten, can be best remedied by a direct appeal to the proper authorities; a headlong dash into print not only does no good, but does much harm. Complaint in general, and unreasonable complaint in particular, gives the student the reputation of a chronic grumbler, and such a reputation is a terrible barrier to the removal of objects of complaint. We have never known a case where a kind suggestion privately to an instructor did not produce the desired effect; while...
THIS famous society was formed a year since, at the suggestion of several gentlemen prominent in science and literature. Its object is the discussion of the world in general and the universe in particular. At these meetings from time to time many valuable papers have been read, and possibly on some future occasion they may be perpetrated in print. But it is with the opening meeting of this famous society that we are at present concerned...
...Alson Broncott called the meeting to order in a felicitous speech, and then asked Mr. F-lds to pass the hat. A general outcry of consternation followed. Mr. J-mes G-rd-n Benn-tt said that it was a dead give-away, and that the Irish were in need of funds to help carry on the glorious work of exterminating, "bloated bond-holders," and that he (Mr. B.) could feel for the poor; Mr. Gl-dst-ne declared that Dizzy must be pensioned; his lordship replied with some asperity, that he was writing another novel, which fact called...
...meeting broke up at last in the greatest confusion, the chairman, Mr. Broncott, shouting above the din that the topic for the next meeting would be, Things in General; or, What No Feller Can Find...