Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place, the idea of allowing the Yale race to take a place of secondary importance, by making our race with Columbia the principal object of our training, is pure, unadulterated nonsense. It is to beat Yale that we subscribe our money and give up our leisure hours to training. Who ever has thought of the Columbia race as anything but an exceedingly subordinate affair? We believe that we express the true sentiments of the college and university at large when we say that the Yale race should be rowed under any reasonable consideration, and that the Columbia race should...
...decision on Saturday in regard to the students who were connected with the recent bridge affair. Twelve were indefinitely suspended, four reprimanded and put on probation and one reprimanded. In addition to this action of the faculty from a disciplinarian point of view, the board of trustees with the idea of protecting the university property has handed in a bill of $400 damages to the students detected and this bill must be paid before any of them will be permitted to return. - [Cornell...
...faculty of Columbia College are in favor of co-education, but have apparently given up the idea of literal co-education, since they new desire to found a new department, with buildings located in the vicinity of the college, to be conducted on a plan similar to that of the Harvard annex...
...must not forget to mention that Prof. W. C. Dole of Amherst, Trinity, Yale, &c., is teaching the Cornell idea how to strike from the shoulder - in other words, is instructing a large class in boxing...
...model of Congress, suggests the query why the plan may not be again adopted at Harvard. It was badly managed during its short life here, but that it then failed is no reason that it should not be again tried and made a successful institution of the college. The idea is good; it only needs energy and good management to gain popularity and success...