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Word: idea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have proved our superiority over Englishmen during the past three summers in yachting. Why not try to vanquish them also in the shell? There is an impression among many that the English crews are superior to ours. This idea would probably be exploded if such a race could take place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/3/1887 | See Source »

...none of the Boston papers have printed a detailed account of the Yale-Pennsylvania football game, it is thought that a short description of it might be of interest to our readers, as it give a very fair idea of the strength of the Yale team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale-Pennsylvania Football Game. | 11/2/1887 | See Source »

...advocates would turn out successfully if it were attempted. As the writer says, any of the Cambridge or Boston hospitals will probably be only too glad to carry away each day any papers that may be left at a box placed at the door of Memorial Hall. The idea is certainly a good one, and we hope to see it carried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/1/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- There is a prevalent but mistaken idea among the students that the football team is, or ought to be, self supporting. It is the policy of the management this year to play the best teams available at whatever cost, and to play all games possible in Cambridge. As the cost of transporting a football team is large. and as our opponents come from considerable distance, we are compelled to give large guarantees. For example, to Williams and to Amherst we had to pay over $100 a piece. The gate money received for those games was scarcely over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 10/27/1887 | See Source »

...said, is an eight of a mile in length, and is but a small part of the structure which was planned at the time that this part was built. It was the intention of the architect to model Trinity after the English colleges; and to carry out this idea, a continuous structure was to be built around the quadrangle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trinity College. | 10/26/1887 | See Source »

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