Word: idea
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following shows the small boy's idea of Harvard...
...seen that "roseless June" idea somewhere before, but the spice one is original enough to make up for it. Next...
...sorry to hear that Harvard's challenge to Yale to row a race for the single-scull championship has been declined. The reason alleged was, "that it would establish a bad precedent, and tend to lessen the interest in the eight-oared race." This certainly seems rather a foolish idea, for one would think that if a Freshman race and a single-scull race could be arranged between the two colleges, to come off at the same time with the "Varsity," it would rather increase than diminish the interest. But as the H. U. B. C. offered...
THERE is very little that is really original in literature. That apparently most original song, "Whoa, Emma," is, after all, only an expansion of Dr. Holmes's idea...
...Lower Holden Wednesday evening was called to ratify the action taken by those members of the Boat Club who were present at the dinner. Considerable uncertainty was manifested as to what was really said and done at that dinner, but the Secretary's report gave a tolerably clear idea of the transactions. Cornell's challenge was accepted on these conditions: that the race be rowed at New London within one week of the Yale race, and that the same rules hold that governed the Saratoga regattas as to what constitutes a "University crew...