Word: idea
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...HAVE always had an idea that it would be delightful to meet persons of whom we have read in books, to have them about me, talk to them and question them, and at last my wish has been gratified. I have the Interrogation Point in my entry. Mark Twain says, that when he knew him he was not learned or wise, but he would be some day if he remembered the answers to all his questions. Mark was too sanguine, or else his memory failed him; he is not wise yet. However, he is still trying just as hard...
...then you can nail it up on your door so that you need not bother yourself to come in here when you want to find out, you know." No go. He came in just the same. The only result has been to give him a great idea of my superior wisdom, the consequence of which is that he appeals to me for confirmation every time he screws up his courage to venture an opinion on some abstruse subject, the weather for instance. "What do you think, Jack?" is his favorite formula at present...
...either case. There is, however, another course which in the present state of affairs forces itself upon the attention of the class. This course is to abolish Class Day altogether for this year. During the period of uncertainty which the class has experienced many have become reconciled to the idea of doing without a Class Day, and, unpleasant as such a course would be, it is certainly better than some things which may happen. Let us hope that we may yet succeed in having a respectable Class Day: but if this cannot be, let us choose the lesser evil...
...time and space. Our readers understand clearly enough that questions as to courtesy and gentlemanlike treatment cannot be settled by any amount of writing. They understand, also, only too well the reception which our Nines and Teams generally receive at New Haven. Yale undergraduates seem to lack the faintest idea of what hospitality is, and we have no desire to undertake the hopeless task of teaching them...
...troublesome incumbrances either. All needful is, at the end of the year, to shake hands with number one, and then, either to take up with number two, or to resume the freedom of bachelor-ship. For, in chumming, it is possible to follow out Lord Dundreary's idea, "If you find you don't like me, you know, you can go back to your mamma...