Word: idea
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea of having a public concert in some large hall in Boston, given by the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality for the benefit of the University Boat Club, is one which meets with our heartiest support. If the clubs are able and willing to give such an entertainment and the faculty does not object, the success of the affair cannot be for a moment doubtful. We all know what a hearty reception any entertainment given by Harvard men always receives in Boston, and the proposed concert would be no exception in such a music loving city. It will also give...
...Gymnasium was first opened, similar squads for practical and systematic use of the building were organized by Dr. Sargent, and the number of men working together was large. Since that year the work of the director has increased in other directions, and the regular squads were given up. The idea in reviving the practice this year is to benefit unattached workers in the gymnasium as well as the regular university teams. The latter will keep on in the old way, exercising by themselves under their own captains as formerly. The only advantage they will gain from the new plan will...
...absolute necessity that there should be new men ready to continue the work. Unless some offer themselves in the course of the year, the "Lampoon," we fear, will, to the lasting shame of all students, have to be given up. Now, every one has an occasional happy idea. Indeed, in every table group, we find one acknowledged funny man or punster. If these persons would only try a few times until they get the style of writing demanded, they would be able to produce occasional articles which would be accepted by the "Lampoon." Surely in a university...
First, we went into the engine room, where is generated all the steam used in cooking. The boilers are high, but the engine is small, it being used principally to run the laundry which is connected with the kitchen. Here we can get some idea of the scale upon which our Dining Association is conducted. In this laundry, which is used almost exclusively for washing the soiled table linen, are employed four or five women, who have nothing to do except to attend to these duties. Here, too, are the latest improvements in machinery, which saves a vast amount...
...student that I once knew went down South last winter, and at one of the hotels where he was staying, wanted to change some plates from one box to another. This must be done in the dark, there was no closet in the hotel room and so the bright idea occurred to him of spreading out an extra blanket and a rubber water-proof on the bed, and then crawling beneath the bedclothes to shift his plates. The landlady whose suspicion had been roused by the strange actions and apparatus of the photographer, happened to come into the room during...