Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR.- Many students, of whom you are one, have as yet made no reply to the inquiries of the committee in regard to college athletics. Without the co-operation of the students. the committee cannot form a clear idea of the state of athletics and of physical exercise in the college. This is a matter which deeply concerns the welfare of the University, and in which instructors and students alike have an interest. The committee wish to know what are the habits of exercise and the opinions of students of every sort; of those who take no active part...
...touch is light and graceful, and hence well adapted to the plot. There are, in the course of the story, many of the delicate turns which, when skilfully handled, always add a charm of their own. Julia's clever plot to outwit the maniac minister is a particularly happy idea...
Among the books lately published in the series of English History from Contemporary Writers, Senior de Mountfort and His Cause is one of the most interesting. This edition of historial subjects is a very happy idea and cannot fail to recommend itself to students interested in this branch of study. Such publications admit of a more elaborate and specific study of the details of the occurrence of early English history, and are therefore necessarily of value to the reading world. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York...
...Wednesday in which Princeton was defeated, the Druids securing 2 goals to Princeton's 0. The Lehigh game was a rough one, and many of the men carry around marks upon their persons which give evidence of misplaced sticks. The Lehigh undergraduates had in some way got an idea into their heads that their team would have no trouble at all in defeating Princeton and were loath to give up their fondly cherished hopes even when all was over...
...resignation of that other soul that finds in every triumph and defeat the fulfilment of its own destiny. The thought is, perhaps, somewhat too deeply hidden by the words, but we do not begrudge the effort to unravel it. Mr. Bates's poem "The Sleeper," develops an original idea. The metre chimes well with the sentiment of the tale; the lines convey the folly and the utter hopelessness of the magicians wish to stop the progress of time. The number closes with the charming bit of verse "Vanitas...