Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand that the college expects soon to make an examination of the boat house with the idea of finding the cause of the recent accident. Of course such an examination is necessary and will give us much information as to the affair. But the investigation, to be entirely satisfactory, should be conducted by persons who are entirely disinterested, as any investigation by persons connected with the college will be more or less liable to the suspicion of prejudice. The boat house was under the management of the college and of course the college will be interested in making a report...
...vigor until now it has enrolled on either side the leading thinkers of the country. It seems to us that there is danger that in the heat of the discussion its true bearings should be lost to sight, and that in the minds of many there should rise the idea that college education and the value thereof was in some way called into question. However hot the debate may be, whatever arguments may be advanced, whichever side may eventually triumph, the great question of the advantages of a collegiate education remains entirely without the province of the debate. Our four...
...diurnally-esteemed contemporary, the Yale News, congratulates itself and the college in having secured the services of a Yale man, with Yale ideas, as professional trainer. This use of the term "Yale ideas" implies what we have always thought, that a Yale man, with Yale ideas, was suit generous. Yes, it is a rarity in the line of professional trainers, and Yale deserves to be congratulated on her good luck. Don't be selfish, dear friends. If there really is some magic charm in these Yale ideas, do tell us what it is, so that we too may labor...
From this brief account one can hardly get a fair idea of the change of feeling towards chapel which has taken place but when one investigates it more carefully, it will be found that it is very great indeed. And if our ancestors could but come back for a day and look at this feature of the present university, they would doubtless fail to recognize this modern development of their stern ideas...
...courtesy is so great that they cannot refrain from noticing an unintentional discourtesy except by a gross insult, then stringent clues ought to be adopted by the association to see that all such be dismissed from the hall, for they are doing much to remove the hitherto prevalent idea that a Harvard student is always a gentleman. If a notice is posted regarding the wearing of hats, and rules are adopted for the expulsion of any and all members found stamping, all such disturbances will be stopped. But let their be no mistake about it now. This repetition has gone...