Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...signal failure of the library to enlighten our minds after sunset; the cause which has occasioned those ever recurring topics of conversation, the pumps, the state of the yard, the onslaught of barbaric muckerism and their like. It is simply the lack of means coupled with the accessory idea of lack of instructors. The English department has attempted by a new system of reckoning to bridge the difficulty. It is now determined that those juniors who have elected composition courses instead of writing the junior themes, shall write a thesis which shall equal in length the combined six themes...
...Annual Convention of the Foot-Ball League to be held in New York today. Since Harvard is still a member of the league she must be represented, and her delegates must give some final answer in regard to the fulfillment of her engagements. In order to get some idea of our position in reference to the maintenance of inter-collegiate foot-ball, President Eliot was interviewed, and the committee was given distinctly to understand that in his personal opinion there was no possible chance of our playing any inter-collegiate games this year; but he also said that...
...purchased a calliope and a coral necklace of a chameleon hue, and securing a suite of rooms at a principal hotel, he engaged the head waiter as his conjutor. He then dispatched a letter of the most unexceptional caligraphy extant, inviting her to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificable to his desires, and sent a polite note of refusal. On receiving which he procured a carbine and bowie knife, said that he would not now forge fetters hymeneal with the queen, went to an isolated spot, severed his jugular vein and discharged the contents...
...what they call the murdering of the English language. There are slang words which are weak, puerile, nonsensical; but there are others which express thoughts with a greater force and clearness than do any words in good repute. For example, what word is there which so exactly expresses the idea of hard, prolonged study as the common college word, "grinding"? But this expressive word is coming to be used so commonly and indiscriminatingly, being applied by some to every degree of application in studying, that it is in danger of losing all its force...
President McCosh of Princeton takes issue somewhat with this view of the case. He does not hold to the old idea of twenty years ago, which prescribed a cast-iron curriculum for the entire college course, to which all alike must conform without any latitude of choice. Neither does he believe that the average boy of 18 years is mature and discreet enough to be allowed to come and go as he pleases, or to select his own course of subjects at the very beginning of his term out of a great multitude presented to his uninformed judgment from which...