Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they leave in the spring, and take their time up to the mid-year's to correct them. The result is that the roll-calls abound with men who never come near the courses, and the instructors are bored with a floating population of volatile individuals who have little idea what they want. The action of the faculty in this matter will meet the approval of all well-regulated students...
...that they are altogether too superficial. They seem to lose sight of the aim of these courses. It is not intended in studying the history of English literature by centuries, to give a thorough study of the different writers. As has been several times expressed at the lectures, the idea of the courses is to give men a knowledge of who the writers are, what period and school they belong to, and what their general work has been. With this foundation laid, students can, in their reading of after life, read more understandingly and also be able to choose authors...
...boat had plain, flat wooden thole-pins fitted into the gunwale. Her oars were of white ash, and ranged from thirteen feet six inches long in the waist, to twelve feet at bow and stern. The captain's gig of a man-of-war will give a very good idea of her general fittings." Since then a number of improvements have been made, and new boats used, until we have finally obtained the Waters' paper shell, which is perhaps the best racing shell made...
...Ford, one of the judges of the Mott Haven games, was in Cambridge yesterday. He said that the 100 yards dash was won by Rogers beyond all cavil. The judges, he said, had no idea of disagreeing in the matter. The decision was only delayed because of the noise made by Yale...
...monkey accompanied by an Italian organ grinder succeeded in causing great annoyance to men who room on Harvard Street. The homeopathic idea of "grinding" inside and outside was not satisfactory...