Word: idea
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...like to make one or two suggestions: first, that the time allowance given to the hounds should be lengthened to ten minutes, and, secondly, that instead of enticing embryo athletes into a run of fifteen miles, with a notice of a course of "about six miles," some more definite idea of the distance be given. Would it not be well to name the place furthest off (for instance, Waverley) that the course would touch, so that a man could have some idea of what is before him? However, the two meets have been very successful, and we congratulate the Athletic...
...good if printed in pamphlet form and distributed, than they do by being delivered. One word more. People are not likely to go to hear a lecture on such a subject as "Ideality in Science," for we do not believe there are ten persons in Cambridge who have any idea what on earth this means; and people certainly will not go to hear a lecture unless they know that it is to be given. If the fact that a lecture was to be given was not kept quite so dark, there might be more than a corporal's guard...
...certain pecuniary value connected with it. He has occupied most of his time since he has been here, not in his studies, but in compiling and publishing guide-books, - very estimable works in their way, but showing conclusively that the writer's literary ability is extremely slim. The idea of Mr. King's being able to represent Harvard College as the editor of a paper is scouted by all intelligent students. He merely uses his nominal connection with the College as a stalking-horse to conceal the true character of this new enterprise, which is simply a financial speculation...
...Well, but, Jack, have n't you any idea where this money went...
...told, imagined, curiously enough, that good manners had died out at Yale, and that he was the Ghost of Manners! The other imagined himself the devil, and had on a sign, "The Devil is More often White than He is Painted." His capitals were peculiar, but the idea was good...