Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college have formed a sparring club, with Mr. McAllister, L. S., as president. Rooms have been taken on Brattle street, and the club will soon be in active operation. No matches will be allowed at the rooms, nor is it intended to have a trainer. The idea of the founders is to have a suitable place for those students who are to practice this branch of athletics...
...country to-day. A few young men of the Indians are at present in some of our Western colleges, and a very few are graduated annually from Hampton College in Virginia. It is safe to say that the average man thoughout the East to-day has but very little idea of the great progress the Indians have been making in civilization and general culture during the last few years...
...trifle "fresh?" It is not a vital fault. Why suppress him? It is not always the blase or the brainless however that bray: "What an ass!" Many a man while secretly admiring independence and push, joins in with the popular chorus against the offender. Few undergraduates have any idea how childish and inane this spirit of repression appears to men outside of the college...
...Williams College Press has an idea that Harvard will play its eleven at Williamstown, November 12. This is not the case as that is the day of the Princeton game in Cambridge...
...communication from "Thorg" in yesterday's issue gave its readers to understand that the evils of Harvard life lying in the social root were ineradicable because of our proximity to a large city. This idea is unique, and, we believe, has never been advanced before; but it is not the relty of the statement, but the absuldity contained in it, which we wish to consider. To say that there is no remedy for the snobbishness manifest in so much of our life here is to admit more than any one ought who feels that he has life and vigor...