Word: idea
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...number of competitors for the Boylston Elocution prizes is so great that there is to be a preliminary contest on the 8th of June. Besides thinning the ranks, this plan will have the advantage of giving those who remain some idea of each other's powers. This is such an obvious improvement over the old method, that we wonder it has not been adopted before. Three or four years ago there were so many candidates that the Faculty decided to exclude Sophomores; perhaps they might now be allowed to compete; but if this does not seem advisable, we respectfully suggest...
...this style of verse," as if it were something quite out of the common run, while the metre of the "Portrait" is most simple and familiar. We must, then, have mistaken the intention of the Lit.'s poet. Will the Courant kindly explain what the unusual metre is? The idea, however, of "A Counterfeit Presentment" is very pretty, and very well worked out. It may also be mentioned in this connection that the lines containing the rhyme to which the Advocate objected so strenuously in its last number, are quoted from Mrs. Browning's "A Portrait," one of her most...
...morning this week. At the close of the recitation this gentleman expressed to the class his dissatisfaction with the way the elective was conducted, advocating reading with expression, and going over less work in the course of the year. The instructor, in defending himself, said that his idea was to go over as much ground in the course as possible, and not to attempt fine elocution and expression in reading. A discussion followed before the division, in which the Examiner was worsted both in fact and argument. It is a matter of great regret, that what belongs only to Faculty...
...DEPARTMENT of "Notes and Queries" has just been started at the Library. The queries are written on slips, and hung on books provided for the purpose, and any one is at liberty to answer them. The idea has become very popular, and will probably be useful, though to judge from the queries, their authors might easily have found the answers on their own hook, without having recourse to the hooks of the Library...
...ground during vacation probably, and once under way will be pushed rapidly forward. Still, as the building cannot be very far advanced by Class Day, we-think that in thus picturing it, we are responding to a general desire, expressed by Seniors particularly; a desire to have an idea, before leaving Harvard for many years, perhaps, of the Gymnasium that will be that will be the best in the country...