Word: generally
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mass meeting of Columbia students held last Saturday a complete change of method in the management of the athletic interests of the university was made. For the old system of a separate organization for each branch of athletics, a general athletic association was substituted. According to the articles of the new system the control of all athletics is vested in a committee made up of five graduates and the captains and managers of the various teams. The graduates are known as the "advisory committee," and are elected by the alumni council. The undergraduate representatives, captains and managers...
...books, numbering about sixteen hundred, have just been received. They consist chiefly of a general collection of English literature, but there are also many French books. They are all of good editions and a considerable number of them are in handsome bindings. Although they will be largely duplicates they are books which will be of much use to the Library...
Weston opened by defining suzerainty as the general right of one nation to interfere in the internal affairs of another nation over which the right exists. In this controversy, the negotiations hinged on suzerainty and not on international law. England refused to accept specific reforms and the question came down to one of franchise. The Transvaal asked England to stand by her statesmen and courts, whose opinions were that suzerainty did not exist. England's magnanimity had been tried and found warning. She never claimed that the conventions have been broken nor would she accept the remedies of grievances because...
...affairs in the Transvaal was intolerable, stood untouched by the negative. International law gave England the right to interfere for the protection of her subjects and even of the natives--a right promised by the Boers in the negotiations regarding the conventions. But conventions aside, England had the general right to protect her citizens, and Princeton did not deny this. The South African troubles had to be faced by England, but, in facing them, she did not demand government control. Wherever English subjects were maltreated, there harmony could never exist
...general design provides an entrance hall of large dimensions, with an assembly room capable of seating 1,000 people, directly opposite the entrance door. On each side of the entrance hall can be located offices and a coat-room. The assembly room constitutes the main feature of the central structure...