Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...splendid idea to have Princeton, Harvard and Yale in one league. Columbia is entirely a new factor. The team has but two of its nine of 1886, and enters the new league under the most unfavorable conditions. If it makes a good showing, it will be contrary to expectations. The impression prevails that the Columbia nine will be the weak member of the quartet, inferior to the Dartmouth and Williams nines surely, and perhaps to the other two clubs of the old league. The triangular league would have undoubtedly been the best in every way, for the objections that were...
...stock at $5 a share have been subscribed for. W. M. Vinton of the junior class, who is a professional base-ball player and can not play with the university team on that account, will be the captain and pitcher. Edward Parsons, '88, will manage the nine. The chief idea informing the new team is to give the regular college team practice, but games will be arranged with several other leading clubs. - N. Y. Times...
...clearly put before the reader. "The sum and substance of the whole thing," writes Captain Ward, "is that a base-ball player must recognize the fact that base-ball is a business, not simply a sport." And although college athletics are not looked upon as a business, yet the idea in Captain Ward's words is true of the work of any 'Varsity team, That is, college athletics have been carried to such a point that unless continuous hard and intelligent work be kept in each branch day after day no good results are obtained. It does not seem very...
...look bright and happy; it makes the sick smile, and the old appear as if they had the crown of life. In old age a man's features are moulded by his character and the life he has led. The word holiness was originally wholeness, and without the latter idea joined to the conception of the modern word holiness, half its force is lost. Most men of the present day would rather be called sinners than saints, and what is needed now is spiritual minded men of the world. What purposes can a man fill to better advantage than...
...following list of ten leading colleges of the United States will give an idea of the importance of a gymnasium in the estimation of the best educational institutions in the country...