Word: generalizers
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...Professor A. L. Perry will have general charge of the College while President Chadbourne is absent at Boston, where he is delivering a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute...
...sake; and, if the annual struggle continues, I should prefer to see the flags awarded to the best oarsmanship, if it were practicable to come to a decision on such a basis. As it is, I am disposed to encourage races only so far as they encourage again a general use of the oar among the students as a means of improving the health...
...smart ones; some able men, and an unusually large number of honest ones; but very few who are really well-bred men of the world. This is perfectly natural. We have no families, or if we have, etiquette does not permit us to say much about them; and, in general, our society is composed of two classes of men, - those who are busily engaged in making fortunes, and those who are equally busy in spending the fortunes that their fathers have made...
ABOUT fifteen men are working in the gymnasium for positions on the Nine, and in nothing is the insufficiency of the building more evident than in the lack of accommodations for base-ball players. Our men pass ball to some extent, take general exercise, and three times a week the pitcher practises pitching; but they can get no practice at all in batting during about five months. At Yale a certain part of the gymnasium is shut off from the rest of the building by a wire screen, and there the candidates for their Nine can take their places...
...about as follows: "Yes; I am pretty far down. I never had an idea which did n't come from the Nation. I don't know anything about the great questions of philosophy. What is culture to me? I spend my time in playing cards for beer, and lately General Schenck has almost become my patron saint. 'Fine clothes and cigarette outside,' the writer in the Advocate says. There is one thing in my favor; I am not open to the fine-clothes charge, - though for a very good reason. But then I have smoked enough cigarettes to counterbalance that...