Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yeomans, the champion mile runner of the N. Y. A. A. C., was here on Saturday. He said that their new gymnasium was entirely eclipsed by our own, and that he had no idea that ours was so handsome. He says he considers it the finest gymnasium in America...
...would seem, from the recently printed words of President Robinson of Brown University, that the idea that a man of prime physical development must necessarily be lacking in strength of intellect has not yet been entirely abandoned. We had thought that this fallacy had been long ago exploded, but when a man occupying so prominent a position as does President Robinson, deliberately states it as his conviction that the students who hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought...
...members of the Mott Haven Team, and all men who entertain any idea of entering the spring sports are requested to meet in the athletic room of the gymnasium at 4 o'clock...
...lectures which would, in this way, become far more comprehensive than they have been in past years. The study of the authors would not be so limited, nor so cursory, if a more extended plan were pursued, than at present. Any course that attempts to give even general idea of Emerson one week, and Carlyle the next can only fail to accomplish its purpose. No cast iron list of ten writers can give any idea of their literary periods when the study of the list is to be finished in ten weeks. If the list admitted additions, the work...
...without shaking Elihu, though himself nothing of an athlete. As an outsider then, he has such a feeling of diffidence on the subject as to prevent him from making anything like a dogmatic statement can only suggest. But it seems to him that it would have been a bright idea for the Harvard Athletic Committee-body of august power and marvelous foresight-to have delayed their decree until the inter-collegiate association had made the annual changes in the rules. Surely if there is the strong public opinion on the subject which the committee has painted, the association must...