Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...worst point of the team was the base running, which was execrable. If Yale's had not been almost equally as bad, the game would surely have gone to the men from New Haven. For Harvard at times neither the baserunners nor the coachers had the slightest idea what was the correct thing to do, and the result was several easy putouts by Yale when Harvard needed runs the most. Unless the nine makes a vast improvement in this particular there is not the slightest chance for victory at New Haven on June 1. The coaching also was very poor...
...romantic air of mystery which surrounds the period of the middle ages; and in Mr. Archer's volume is given an account of his deeds in the east at the time of the great crusade. The account has the advantage of possessing the Saracen as well as the Christian idea of his character, and it moreover gives the Mohammedan story of the battles of the crusades. Such authorities have been cited as the ancient historians Bohadin, Ernoul, and Ambrose, who were actually in Palestine when the events which they described took place. The book is almost entirely free from...
...probably spent, as the building, as designed, will cost about $150,000, but it is thought the deficiency can be made up by next fall. The building will be three stories in height, with a high studded basement. Particular attention is to be paid to the sanitary arrangement, the idea being to have the building the most perfect of its kind in America. The outside will probably be stone, though unless sufficient money is raised, the committee will have to content themselves with brick...
...have two ideas in our minds, the stronger one will expel the weaker; but if they be of the same strength, they will blend, and when we recall one we can recall the other. The ease with which we can, after remembering one idea, recall the other, depends on the strength of the blending, and the strength of the blending depends on the strength of the ideas. Strong impressions make strong ideas, and all we can do to facilitate remembrance is, therefore, to strengthen the impressions. This can be done in two ways, first, by concentrating the attention...
...Jose Coach" is a short sketch of California stage life by Mr. Frederick L. Duncan. It is a very good piece of description, the introduction being especially vivid. The idea is not new but the treatment is excellent, maintaining the interest to the very end. "Topics of the Day" include a thoughtful and suggestive letter to the freshman class, and a communication on the mutilation of library books, both of which are well worth reading, The former deserves the attention and reflection not only of those to whom it is addressed, but of every other man in college, treating...