Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Upanishad originally means "sessions" because the people were wont to sit in circles about the philosophers to learn of the doctrine. The ideas of the Upanishad were three in number. First, the existence of an eternal soul of souls; second, the invisible emanations from the soul, ill-understood, but known as mind; and lastly the method of arresting the migration of the mind and restoring it at length to the soul. This is a grander conception than any other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss...
...present daily practice will be had on Holmes field. In this way Captain Linn hopes to bring out the best men in college and to get an idea of the relative strength of the new and old material. Practice will be begun at 4 o'clock and all who wish to be considered candidates are asked to notify Captain Linn in person. The following is a partial list of the men outside of last year's team, who will try for the nine this year...
...plans for the Glee club concert at New London are now almost all made, it only remaining to choose the men who are going. The idea is to take almost the same number of each part, and the whole number of men will be between twenty and twenty-five. Unlike the Glee club, the Banjo club will probably send down nearly all if not all of its members. The two clubs will leave on the 27th, and the concert will be the night of the race...
...Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, has just been published. The object of the author was to introduce some systematic way of training for those who are without a regular trainer, since as the article says there are so many enthusiastic athletes who, without the services of a trainer, have no correct idea of the proper training dis ances, and who, accordingly, cause much injury to themselves by overstraining. The author states that exceptions may be made in individual cases to the rules set down, but in the majority of cases they should be held to strictly. The idea is to keep...
...circulars signed by Professor Peabody which has recently been sent to a large number of students, including all the senior class, represent an effort to put into effect an idea which has occurred independently to many members of the University. Many senior have pieces of furniture which they do not care to take away with them, and which if sold, would bring nothing like their real value as measured by their capacity to do service in a student's room. A plan has been carefully arranged by which such articles can be loaned on proper terms to students who would...