Word: generalizers
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...seems that the Wesleyan young lady was not chosen class-day poet, but poet for the class supper. The whole affair was a joke, and as soon as the young lady found out the character of the supper, which is like class suppers in general, she was glad to resign. There was no ill feeling on either side...
...sentiments, if not her brogue; for the mat, although by no means a complete hole, was yet very perfect in its way, and had acquired many of the properties that are supposed to be peculiar to traps. One rent in particular seemed to fit the universal foot, - "foot" in general, and not any particular foot, - for it arrested equally quickly the orangeman and the Sophomore who wears ladies' size. The poor mat has been cursed every hour of the day and night, and now, at last, seeing that it still remained unannihilated, some one has employed violence and has doubtless...
...Index is now ready. The advertisements have been banished to the end of the volume, and the general list of the students has been given the last, instead of the first place...
...about the nine, and the crew, and that sort of thing; but there his information ended. Stiggs, a somewhat different character, confined his thoughts and his talk to recent philological discoveries, and to certain occult events in mediaeval history. And the one man who seemed to have a little general information turned out to be the editor of a paper, so that, after all, he was talking shop...
Although, as I have said, people in this part of the world usually talk shop, and nothing else, there are a few bright exceptions to this rule, - there are a few who have made it their business to get hold of a good deal of general information, and who are sensible enough to keep it to themselves when it is not asked for. And this blessed few, when they find themselves in a company where shop must perforce be talked, are willing to talk your shop instead of their own. To mention names would be invidious, but I think that...