Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea of presenting a testimonial to Col. Bancroft is a most happy...
Reference has been made to improvement made in the game during the season past. These may be noted as follows: placing two forwards on a line with the scrimmage and playing in the scrimmage with the idea not so much of playing the ball forwards, as sidewards to these unchecked men. This play is a great advantage when adopted by one side only, and could not prove very effective otherwise. Much cannot be said in favor of the change, it leads to loose scrimmaging which means excessive roughness in the game. Another improvement, and one more properly so-called...
...certain circumstances, such as sudden illness, leaving the room during the lecture is perfectly excusable, but for a man to leave simply because he finds the lecture rather dry or because he is rather sleepy, is rude to both lecturer and fellow students. If a man goes with the idea of leaving in the middle of the hour, or soon after the roll call, to say the least he shows himself off in no very good light. So much for courtesy among the students. On the side of the lecturers, is it not their duty to be prompt in closing...
...idea of teacher as master, and the pupil as a sort of slave long ago passed away, but there still exists, on the part of the one, the feeling that his efforts are thankless and unappreciated, and on the part of the other, the feeling that he is being instructed by a man, who if he does good work, does it with the view of standing high in educational circles, rather than of benefiting those under his charge. The impressions of both are usually equally false, but they will exist just as long as there is a want of sympathy...
Apparently the result of the Harvard agitation will be to have a referee to watch each man and one to referee the game. Not a bad idea, on the whole.-[Yale Record...