Word: generalizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...General Swift then spoke for a half an hour in his characteristic pointed manner, interspersing his remarks with numerous anecdotes. He said that there were two schools of temperance, the wet and the dry. He preferred the dry, as did Dickens' young lady on board the vessel in the case of the fifth lover who wouldn't jump overboard to save her, because he was the most practical. In taking a stand against liquor there were too heresies to be met. The personal heresy, where people of high standing used liquor moderately and had it on their sideboards...
...response to a very general request on the part of the students in Chemistry, the large laboratory is kept open until one o'clock on Saturday, instead of closing at eleven. It was no more than rational that so reasonable a demand on the part of the students should by speedily granted. This opportunity to do additional laboratory work will be gladly embraced by a large number of men who found the previous time too short...
Colonel Thomas W. Higginson and General Jonathan L. Swift, will address the Harvard Total Abstinence League Friday evening of this week at 7.30 o'clock...
Early in October about fifty men presented themselves as candidates for the freshman crew. Since then, however, the number has gradually been reduced until the present time, - when there are two crews at work in the gymnasium. The general routine work done by the men is precisely the same as that adopted by crews heretofore: - two or three hundred strokes on the machines, - exercise with the pulling - weights and a run up the Avenue. The men are doing as well as can be expected at this time of the year, - but as they are still at straight arm work...
...will be seen, the same general faults run straight through the boat. The whole crew should be very careful about the time, and should keep their arms perfectly straight. Then, too, they must remember to keep their shoulders down. But perhaps the most noticeable fault is the hang at the finish. The men, especially stroke, should come right forward at the end of each stroke...