Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mark and no cramming need be done for them except by a few lazy men, whom it will not injure to "brace' once or twice during the year instead of doing all their study for the semiannuals. And they certainly are of great use in giving one an idea of the nature of the questions on the midyear papers and of the kind of work expected there. Besides they are excellent tests to let a man see whether he has worked too much or too little on his course. Of course a little of them goes a great...
...worked so hard and faithfully in bringing victory to a class whose enthusiasm, so intense at first, now seems to be ending in a feeble cloud of smoke. Up to the present time, the career of '91 has given promise of a brilliant future, but if its idea of showing appreciation for athletic victories is to repudiate its debts, it need not be surprised to fine a lack of vigor and energy in the work of both nine and crew. Men who can afford to strut about the college yard smoking Turkish cigarettes and expensive tobacco in handsome meerschaums, bragging...
...expect much from "the boys." Like them, he thought examination a good deal of a bore. He was a genial and extremely popular man, and when he became president the students always felt that he was on their side. His was a large and generous idea, and in all of his published work he has deserved well of his country, but the idea of the practical teaching of history, even of America, was yet to evolve from the tutorial system of Harvard College...
...Swan's Secret" is an interesting tale of the downward career of an Italian noble in the guise of a revolutionist. There is a pathetic current running through it, and the individuality of the writer is at times strongly marked. The idea of introducing the swans at the end of the story is a very happy...
...sentiment which he wishes to convey, and which he did convey to those present, such as our contemporary would have its readers believe. Captain Beecher did not train his team "to fight the referee," nor did any one who heard what he said take it that way. The idea which he did give was that he had trained his team to win in spite of all obstacles, even if the referee were one of them. If the Harvard papers have reached that state where they wish to stake their pleasant relations with Yale upon such a petty matter...