Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contains an article on Harvard undergraduate life which cannot fail to be of interest to all students in Cambridge. The writer of the article, Mr. Sloane Kennedy, the compiler of the lives of Longfellow and Whittier, takes a very friendly view of Harvard students. He objects to the popular idea that Harvard students are either boating men, base-ball players or "howling swells," and characterizes the representative Harvard man as "simply a quiet, studious young man, only to be distinguished from other well dressed young men by a certain air of intellectualism and that appearance of lofty disdain which characterizes...
...There were four great universities of ancient times," says Dr. W. T. Harris, "Oxford, Cambridge, Bologna and Paris. From the crusades came the idea of civil law, and the degree of Dr. was bestowed upon graduates of the University of Bologna, while that of Master of Arts was from Paris University after the graduates had completed the study of the seven liberal arts. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was instituted first by Gregory...
Second Swell: Think so, old man? Well, I don't mind telling you; it's a little idea of my own. It's one of the guvnor's cuffs. - [Spectator...
Under the able management of such competent instructors as Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard College and Fred C. Lister, the Union Athletic Club of Boston ought to once more revive their former activity. A good idea might be to hold a consolidated meeting, inviting the Harvard, Technology, Amherst and other clubs to be represented; but there has been a surprisingly great lack of amity of feeling and sympathy among athletes at the Hub, which would have to be done away with...
...goes on to state: "The result was a bitter disappointment, of course," alluding to Harvard, "but does that justify the conduct of their men among the spectators, hissing every fine play made by the Yale team?" We owe thanks to the Record for furnishing us with this truly Yaleistic idea of "fine playing." It is quits an innovation to regard intentional and repeated breaking of the established rules in the light of skill, and as if it deserved high credit in place of the well-merited condemnation it received. There is one way, and only one, by which...