Word: idea
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Princeton.- A Gun Club has been organized, with the idea of encouraging "field-shooting...
Freed from this nuisance, I try to get an idea of when my annuals come; an undertaking that requires me to crowd and push with a lot of others, in order to get a chance to see a notice which, when I do see it, tells me that my examinations all come in the same week. Highly gratified by this pleasing announcement, I go to lunch, to be entertained with the eternal talk about J. Cook and the Boston Transcript, the same remarks that I have heard every day for a week. By this time I am pretty well disgusted...
...progress of education may sometimes be pardoned. Still, we felt we were behind the times when we were obliged, after reading on a catalogue the name of Drury College, to confess that we had never heard of it before. A perusal of the catalogue has given us some idea of how they furnish young ladies and gentlemen with a liberal education in Missouri...
...paper has been bright, newsy, and, in tone, manly. There has been a tendency to assume a complete knowledge, on the part of the readers, of the matters discussed in the editorial columns, and the result is, that after reading a long editorial, one has not the faintest idea what is the subject under discussion. As cases in point we note "the treaty between the two Halls," and the new base-ball policy. It may be said that every Princeton student knows the terms of the treaty and the details of the new policy; but this assumption on the part...
...torrent of rich brogue, which I cannot understand, that I am left completely at his mercy. The faster he talks the lower my spirits sink. Being possessed of the advantage of being able to understand what I say, while my replies to him are made without the remotest idea of what I am answering, he has me at his mercy; and I sink exhausted into my armchair, while he chatters himself victoriously out of the door...