Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members and of non-members who may be interested in the society is much to be desired. If the college will take an active part in the proceedings of the meeting, suggesting,-criticising where need be, the directors elected for the ensuing year can acquire a much better idea of the general sense of the members in regard to the management and to matters of detail which may be of public interest, which they will only be able to guess at if the attendance and interest be slight and the proceedings of the meeting be merely perfunctory...
...complaint that has been so often made that the system in yogue there is one whose workings are dark and beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals will now be hushed. With everything made clear, there is no reason why the hall should not prosper even more than before. The idea of improving the lunches will meet with approval from all the boarders. Hitherto the lunches have been considered the weakest part of the bill of fare. That the board of directors have given their attention to the subject shows that they are working for the best interests of those whom...
...Harvard, he said, would pass the resolutions any way, but Princeton would not concur on that account or on account of the concurrence of five of the smaller colleges. "Yale," said the gentleman, "did not act fairly in not attending the convention. It would not have compromised her. The idea is that Yale will be compelled to come in on account of having to forfeit otherwise the race with Harvard. Our idea for Princeton is to let the students have a field-master, who shall have charge of all out-door branches, and be moderately versed...
When the English residents of Lisbon and Oporto started cricket in Portugal years ago, the new game excited great wonder among the natives, the Portuguese people, who find no pleasure in athletic sports or in muscular exercise generally, being puzzled at the idea of wealthy people engaging in such laborious work. On the occasion of the first match at Lisbon between the two clubs, the Lisbon Journal thus reported...
...their enlargement almost exclusively upon a certain clientele, composed generally of their own graduates, who above all, appreciate the need and usefulness of such gifts. But such a fact too much indicates how slight a hold the universities have upon the class of other than college graduates. The idea of university education is popular; the application of it halts...