Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate's revised plan for the consideration of the Tennis Association seems to us to be an improvement neither on the one already adopted nor on the one as presented some weeks ago, from which the main idea of the Advocate's suggestion is taken. The amendment which the Advocate offers to our plan is that for two hours in the day the courts be reserved for the exclusive use of the owners. This, it seems to us, would simply bring about a return of the old state of affairs. All the owners would choose to keep the exclusive...
...because it was not invited to join the Inter-Collegiate Tennis Association. The University Magazine claims that the game has been played at that college as long as at any other, and that if opportunity were given it would make a hard fight for the championship. It ridicules the idea of the colleges that have won the least reputation in tennis starting the association without inviting the colleges that have done most in the sport to enter...
...idea that a fence would be undemocratic as preventing some men from seeing the game who can not afford the price of admission, is laughable. We suppose the faculty consider it a much more democratic spirit which will prompt a man to look over a fence at a game of ball whose expenses are entirely paid by some one else. It seems like a scheme to compel the wealthy and generous students of the college to pay for the poor student's amusement. I am not sure that I can appreciate the democratic spirit which will permit...
...tell us that the faculty oppose a fence because they believe the students oppose it. To do a thing distasteful to us and then excuse it by claiming that we wish it, is a little too much. Student nature can bear no more. This idea overpowers us so that we are unable to touch upon the other argument - the "aesthetic" argument as the HERALD calls...
...alumni of Cornell University, in New York city, have arrived at a wise conclusion as to what is the real greatness of a college. The truth that no institution of learning is great unless it stands definitely for some great idea or traditions is one that has been newly enunciated by a committee of the Alumni Association of Cornell, in New York, and acting on this view of the cause of the decline of Cornell of recent years, the association is to set itself about a reform in the administration of its affairs. It is claimed the number of students...