Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whether as learners or teachers, must work a great improvement in the first of these matters. Although it may be a little difficult to understand the process of reasoning by which this conclusion as to the innate superiority of women as teachers is reached, the novelty of the idea must commend it to thoughtful consideration. It seems, however, a good deal to ask of the conservative scholarship of centuries that it yield itself to the guidance of this new rival without a struggle...
...carrying out of the above scheme will probably necessitate giving up the idea of class nines, for the second nine, reinforced as it will be by others who will begin practice in the spring, will include nearly all the good players of the college, and moreover there will hardly be room enough for more than three nines to practise on Holmes and Jarvis fields. This is much to be regretted, for class games would be of great value in bringing out new men and in keeping up a live interest in base-ball. Still these ends can in some degree...
...band of Indians from the far West recently visited New Haven, and when they heard the Yale boys yell they drew apart and wept to think how they had been fooling themselves for years with the idea that they knew how to howl. [Boston Post...
...question is certainly one of the highest moment in university administration, and the importance of a thorough reform in the methods at present in vogue is becoming more and more clearly recognized. That Harvard will soon find it necessary to move in the matter seems to be an idea that is daily gaining ground. Whether the outcome of any reform will result in the adoption of some modification of the "Amherst system," adapted to the larger requirements of a university, or in some totally new system, it is useless to conjecture; but that a system of ranking and of examination...
...will in time make one the possessor of a well-built chest, and thereby do much to ensure health. Any exercise which causes the lungs to take in a large amount of air effects both the circulation and the respiratory functions. In this connection Dr. Sargent stated that the idea that rowing did not enlarge the respiratory power was an erroneous one, as a man who rows three miles at the top of his speed takes in eight times as much air as one in a recumbent position. There is always in the chest a hundred cubic inches...