Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Guerndale" was undoubtedly "Hammersmith," but this dealt with the one set of college society which has always furnished materials for such books in all countries. The young men who have oftenest formed the heroes of these novels belong to the class called "sappy" and give but a poor idea of the flesh and blood which is to be found in colleges as well as elsewhere. Whatever other objections may be urged to "Guerndale," however, nothing can be said against it on this score. There is an air of life about it which is lacking in all the other books that...
...always been a steady advance in the reading matter and of late there has been much attention paid to their outer or visible side. The typography is far better than it was a few years ago and now a rage for attractive illuminated covers has sprung up. The idea of a decorative cover for a college paper originated with the Lampoon; and the laughing knight on his winged horse has long been a familiar object among the host of college exchanges. For many volumes this hardy pioneer was alone in this untried field, nor did it seem...
...Boston Globe ridicules the idea of abolishing the admission fees to college baseball games...
Among the topics of the evening was the idea of rendering some substantial aid to the University of California, and a committee was appointed to confer with the regents of the California University as to the most useful method of furnishing or endowing a scholarship in the name of the Harvard Club of San Francisco. This association has always entertained the most friendly feelings towards the university at Berkeley, and has more than once expressed itself in this direction, and whilst its affection for Harvard never diminishes-but is constantly on the increase, if any one may judge from...
...Mark Hopkins, of Williams College, in a recent letter speaks as follows: "I would like also, if I might, to say a word in favor of the college idea as it has existed in this country_that is, the idea of an education distinctively liberal. It has been toward the realization of that idea that my life work has been devoted. My wish has been to have here an institution that should have the means of doing and should do for young men in the forming period of their lives the best that can be done for them in four...