Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greater universities, as Harvard, Yale and Columbia, have never been primarily places for spending three or four years pleasantly, and incidentally places of instruction, as was the case with Oxford and Cambridge during the last century. Every student at an American college goes to college with the fixed idea of learning something...
...club, among whom are Messrs. R. D. Sears and Pettit. The club now contains about 1200 members, and there are many names on the waiting list. It is probable that the membership will soon be considerably increased. Many of Boston's leading citizens are members, and it is their idea to make this club of as high a social order as any club in Boston. The situation of the club building is a decidedly favorable one, and its site has become infinitely more valuable than when it was bought. There is no reason why the Boston Athletic Club should...
...takes issue with the idea, which has become prevalent, that competitive athletics serve to lower the physical condition of the mass of students because only a few take part in such sports...
...Glee and Banjo Clubs states fairly the good results that may be expected from the trip in the way of altering somewhat the current opinion of Harvard life throughout the west. The second editorial, on the subject of forensics and themes, deserves a careful reading. The same idea must have occurred to every senior and junior taking elective courses in which theses are required. To be sure, the man who has three or four theses, as the Advocate assumes, is not the average man, so the evil of the present system is not so great as it pictures. Nevertheless...
...humor as well as its sarcasm. The last prose article is "Jerry's Consolation," by Mr. Wardner, a sequel to "A Nineteenth Century Romance." It is written in the same humorous vein, and is the best thing in the number. The verses, "What the Tower Says," contains a good idea, but may more properly be called rhyme than poetry. Mr. Dennison's "Alackaday" is good, though the sentiment is not strikingly original. The usual book notices and Brief fill out the number...