Word: idea
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...part of students as to whether four dollars a week was a price that would insure good fare, and the suggestion was made that extra dishes should be supplied to those who were willing to pay for them. Four dollars was fixed as the minimum, with the idea that for a little more than that a student could get good, plain food, simply but well cooked, which would be all that could be expected of an arrangement to allow us to economize without danger to our health. In point of fact, I believe the price has averaged perhaps thirty...
...action of the Faculty in requiring, under certain circumstances, a fee from men who present themselves a third time for examination on any subject is a move in an entirely new direction. We take it that the idea was not so much to bring men to get off their conditions on the first trial as to give some recompense to the tutor, whose work is increased by their carelessness or stupidity. If more such measures were introduced, if a system of fines should be substituted in part for the system of censure-marks, we believe that the result would give...
...while fearing that the article will have little effect in reforming degraded students, are deeply thankful that in one breast, at least, still glows that "lofty morality" which "keeps alive the conception of a better state of things." After a prayer for more earnest action and "enthusiasm of the idea," - one cannot help wishing that the writer had a little more enthusiasm for the facts, - we are told that...
Which is very true if enthusiasm of the idea is the only good, otherwise I need not inform so "brilliant a logician" he is guilty of the fallacy of denying the antecedent...
...members of '77 who take an interest in the subject of a class window can obtain some idea of one from a water-color sketch of a window designed especially for Memorial Hall, by calling at 18 Holworthy...